From: Mikel Lindsaar <raasdnil@...>
Date: 2007-10-25T16:37:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Need help parsing HTML with Hpricot...

You can try each_child.

I will use each_child_with_index to show you what I mean:

Put your raw HTML text into @text

@parsed_html = Hpricot(@text)
@parsed_html.each_child_with_index do |c,i|
  puts "Line #{i}: #{c.to_s.strip}"
end

Produces:

Line 0: This is one line of text
Line 1: <br />
Line 2: This is another line of text
Line 3: <br />
Line 4: It keeps going on like this
Line 5: <br />
Line 6:
Line 7: <br />
Line 8: Until a new paragraph is started
Line 9: <br />
Line 10: Otherwise, it's just more of the same
Line 11: <br />
Line 12:

Hope that helps.

Mikel


On 10/25/07, Just Another Victim of the Ambient Morality
<ihatespam@hotmail.com> wrote:
>     I'm having trouble understanding Hpricot (thanks to an abominable lack
> of documentation).  I'm trying to parse HTML of the following nature:
>
>
> This is one line of text<br />
> This is another line of text<br />
> It keeps going on like this<br />
> <br />
> Until a new paragraph is started<br />
> Otherwise, it's just more of the same<br />
>
>
>     I know, it looks simple but, frankly, I have no clue how to parse this
> with Hpricot.  Particularly, I don't know how to single out the lines of
> text in between the "br" tags.  This is important 'cause I need to know
> where the line breaks are in the text, as well as the new paragraphs.
>     Does anyone know how to do this with Hpricot?
>     Thank you...
>
>
>
>