From: Marcello Barnaba <bofh@...>
Date: 2007-02-13T12:00:33+09:00
Subject: Re: What's the best way of parsing this string?

Hi,

On Tuesday 13 February 2007 02:16, Austin Ziegler wrote:
> On 2/12/07, Dave Hoefler <dhoefler@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have a question about string search and replacement. Let's say I have
> > this string that contains 2 <object> links for embedding youtube videos
> > amongst some other random text.
>
> I haven't used it yet, but I hear really good things about Hpricot.

i've used it[1], i needed to pull out some statistical data off a bunch of 
html pages slightly different from one to another, combined with firebug[2]'s 
ability to generate xpath expression by simply pointing at an element[3], and 
recent hpricot's support for xpath indices.. it should be a matter of minutes 
of automatically extracting anything you want from any html page. :)

[1] http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/hpricot/ 
[2] http://www.getfirebug.com/
[3] version 1.0 is simply *awesome*
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