From: Robert Klemme Date: 2009-06-24T05:50:47+09:00 Subject: Re: HTML dom On 23.06.2009 19:24, Skye Shaw!@#$ wrote: > On Jun 23, 8:55 am, Victor Tanvuia > wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm trying to build a HTML page indexer in ruby and I'd like to be able >> to use DOM and or XPath on a document. The application is currently >> using REXML > > Yes, REXML can be awkward if you're used to using the DOM. IMHO. Why do you say that? REXML provides an XML DOM in similar ways as other XML libs. You can even use XPath queries. >> Is there a way to make REXML more permissive or is there another library > > There's libxml bindings for Ruby, but I recall that library missing > getElementsByTagName and getElementsById. Though it does have a method > to query the DOM via Xpath. libxml won't help as Victor is not processing XML. > Have you tried using REXML's SAX2 parser? I think it would be better > suited for your problem. No, his problem is that he used an XML tool to process HTML. While many web pages are valid XML not all are due to the history of browser development. Thus it's better to use a tool suited to the job, i.e. capable of parsing HTML which is not valid XML. Kind regards robert -- remember.guy do |as, often| as.you_can - without end http://blog.rubybestpractices.com/