From: Sean O'Halpin <sean.ohalpin@...>
Date: 2009-03-28T20:32:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Regular Expression interesting problem

On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 9:07 AM, Arun Kumar
<arunkumar@innovaturelabs.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm learning about regular expressions right now for a html scraping
> based assignment. But now I've reached a problem. Given below are two
> different html tags.
>
> <link
> href="http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_world_edition/help/rss/rss.xml"
> rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="BBC NEWS | Help | RSS"
> />
>
> <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="YouTube - Top
> Favorites Today"
> href="http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/base/standardfeeds/top_favorites?client=ytapi-youtube-index&time=today&v=2">
>
> Now what i want is to capture the href-url if the type =
> "application/rss+xml". It seems to be simple but it is the position of
> the 'type' that creates the problem. In first tag the 'type' is after
> href and in the second the 'type' is before it. It seems to me as an
> interesting problem, but i need help for solving it. Please help me.
>
> Regards
> Arun Kumar

In your last post you were telling us about a strict 'boss' who
wouldn't let you use REXML or any XML parsing libraries. I take it
this 'boss' is your teacher.

This isn't an interesting problem. Do your own homework and don't lie
to try to get others to do it for you.