From: "DanDiebolt.exe" <dandiebolt@...>
Date: 2009-01-02T07:37:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Help with HTML parsing

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open-uri gives you access to http/https/ftp while Hpricot is a html parser. So for your intended application you would potentially use both - open-uri would fetch the html document and whereas Hpricot would do the parsing using xpath/css selectors etc. open-uri is used when you are loading your html from the web url. The open-uri part happens in the blink of an eye and then you are off manipulating your hpricot doc:
require 'open-uri'
doc = open("http://qwantz.com/") { |f| Hpricot(f) }



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