From: bbiker <renard@...>
Date: 2007-02-02T01:40:06+09:00
Subject: Re: hpricot 0.5 -- a fast, forgiving HTML reader

On Jan 31, 10:33 pm, _why <w...@ruby-lang.org> wrote:
> Hi, here's Hpricot 0.5.
>
>   gem install hpricot --sourcehttp://code.whytheluckystiff.net
>
> Hpricot reads HTML pages and works hard to fix them up and give you
> everything you need to wind your way around them and hack them up!
> Inspired by John Resig's JQuery and Tanaka Akira's HTree.
>
>  * Hpricot is standalone.  It's dependant on no other libs, just
>    Ruby.
>  * Hpricot is fast, its parser is written in C with help of the
>    wonderful Ragel state machine compiler.
>  * However, Hpricot also works hard to fix up HTML and pays a small
>    penalty to get it right.
>  * How hard does Hpricot work?  My rule is: if Firefox parses it,
>    Hpricot should too.
>
> This release has a number of really nice features.  The new
> `to_original_html` method will try to preserve as much of the
> original HTML as possible (including its mistakes) while still
> merging in your changes.  Also, you can test text nodes with syntax
> like: `//a[text()='Click Me!']`.
>
> Should appear on Rubyforge soon enough.  Thank you to all the
> ticketeers and patchistadores out there, especially Leslie Wu who's
> been punching that commit button like she's doin the turtle trap!!
>
> _why

just downloaded hpricot ... no warnings when I run my script.

however, the Rdoc flag is still turned off ..  documentation please!!!

C:\..\Owner>gem query -n hpricot -r -s http://
code.whytheluckystiff.net"

*** REMOTE GEMS ***
Need to update 2 gems from http://code.whytheluckystiff.net
..
complete

hpricot (0.5, 0.4.99, 0.4.92, 0.4.90, 0.4.86, 0.4.76, 0.4.59, 0.4.52,
0.4.47, 0.4.43,
 0.4, 0.3.32, 0.3, 0.2, 0.1)
    a swift, liberal HTML parser with a fantastic library

C:\..\Owner>gem install hpricot --source http://
code.whytheluckystiff.net
Select which gem to install for your platform (i386-mswin32)
 1. hpricot 0.5 (ruby)
 2. hpricot 0.5 (mswin32)
 3. hpricot 0.5 (ruby)
 4. hpricot 0.5 (mswin32)
 5. Skip this gem
 6. Cancel installation
> 2
Successfully installed hpricot-0.5-mswin32

C:\Documents and Settings\Owner>

RubyGems Documentation Index

hpricot 0.4 [rdoc] [www]
a swift, liberal HTML parser with a fantastic library


hpricot 0.4.99 [rdoc] [www]
a swift, liberal HTML parser with a fantastic library


hpricot 0.5 [rdoc] [www]
a swift, liberal HTML parser with a fantastic library

in all of the listing, only "www" has an active link.