From: Sanjay Sharma <sanjay.t.sharma@...>
Date: 2009-06-14T04:27:41+09:00
Subject: Re: Noob, html trees & parsing

Michael Lesser wrote:
> Hi all.
> 
> Noob, first project, read the Poignant Guide, et al.
> 
> I have a big Perl script that parses badly-formed HTML files with HTML
> Element/Tree. I think it's time for an update.
> 
> I think the equivalent in Ruby is Hpricot? I haven't found a lot of dox
> on this, so I am assuming that this type of problem is something that
> becomes 'obvious' once you start working in Ruby.  Or should I be
> looking at another/better solution (as in, duh, it's got XXX built-in,
> noob...)?
> 
> TIA

You might want to take a look at html5lib < 
http://code.google.com/p/html5lib/ > for parsing bad markup.
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