From: Luciano Ramalho <ramalho@...>
Date: 2006-11-22T23:15:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Hpricot/Rubyful Soup comparison

On 11/22/06, Peter Szinek <peter@rubyrailways.com> wrote:
> > Also, RubyfulSoup aims to be very resilient to malformed markup,
> So it's HPricot. HPricot is not just a HTML parser which can parse
> (relatively) valid HTML - it can parse any HTML 'somehow'. We can argue
> whether HPricot's 'somehow' is better or worse that RubyfulSoup's, but
> it is a fact that HPricot is handling malformed pages very well.

Thanks for the input, Peter. From your opinion and other�s, it seems
HPricot is the best option. Coming from Python, I was used to
BeautifulSoup, from which RubyfulSoup derived, and I was very happy
with it. But if we can have the same benefits with better performance,
then it�s a no-brainer!

Cheers,

Luciano