From: "DanDiebolt.exe" <dandiebolt@...>
Date: 2009-01-10T04:35:59+09:00
Subject: Re: hpricot or nokogiri?

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>Any advice for me follks?
I use Hpricot extensively for various data mining tasks. 
It is my repeated experience that the more difficult task
is devising a harvesting strategy which depends on the
structure of target web page. I rarely have to devise a 
workaround because Hpricot does not support a selector or 
some other feature. In practice, when you start parsing a
lot of web pages for information things like invalid html,
character entities, whitespace & comments, css interactions 
etc become more of an issue the features of your parser. 
Other may have different experience, but I find determining
a harvesting strategy more difficult than manipulating
a particular gem such as Hpricot.
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