From: bdelmee@... (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bernard_Delm=E9e?=)
Date: 2001-11-27T00:06:04+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:26517] Re: New Ruby user / HTML Parser / Module repository

> I searched the web to find some modules I wanted to use, 
> but didn't find a repository comparable to CPAN. 

The closest thing is the "Ruby Application Archive", at
http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/raa.html

> Most painful to me was the lack of a HTML parser,
> so I went out and rolled my own, ...

You could give this module a try :
http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/raa-list.rhtml?name=html-parser
This is a straight port of the python equivalent modules, to the 
extent that there's no ruby documentation, just pointers to the 
original one. That's not bad, especially if you've already played 
with the python stuff.

I have used it to implement a LinkCollector, which you may want
to check at http://www.bdelmee.easynet.be/lilshoot/
That's neither documented nor specially fit for reuse, but should
show how straight-forward extending the sgml-parser class is.

HTH,

Bernard.