From: _why <why@...>
Date: 2006-11-23T04:24:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Hpricot/Rubyful Soup comparison

On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 03:57:51AM +0900, Wes Gamble wrote:
> Actually, I'm kind of hoping that I can make mods. to the parse tree, 
> but that no "unnecessary fixing" of bad HTML occurs.
> 
> So I'm wondering does modifying the parse tree at all and then 
> outputting it imply that all of the malformed HTML will be 
> fixed/modified in some way or not?

With `to_original_html`, no malformed HTML is fixed.

  >> require 'hpricot'
  >> doc = Hpricot("<div><p>Paragraph one<p>Paragraph two <b>with <i>some</b> tags in it <b etc.=></p>")
  >> (doc/:p).set('class', 'new')
  >> puts doc.to_original_html
  <div><p class="new">Paragraph one<p class="new">Paragraph two <b>with <i>some</b> tags in it <b etc.=></p>

With `to_html`, Hpricot will line up all the tags.

_why