From: Ned Konz <ned@...>
Date: 2002-05-26T04:52:31+09:00
Subject: [ANNOUNCE] ruby-htmltools, a tree-building HTML parser

I have written a tree-building HTML parser that is handy for doing 
analysis, repair, or transformations of HTML text.

The RAA entry is 
http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/raa-list.rhtml?name=ruby-htmltools

and you can download it at:
http://www.bike-nomad.com/ruby/ruby-htmltools-1.0.tar.gz

It requires the html-parser library, available from 
http://www.jin.gr.jp/~nahi/Ruby/html-parser/html-parser-19990912p2.tar.gz

I'd like to hear your feedback. One thing that I'd like to add is some 
kind of path matching like XPath or CSS selectors.

However, right now you can go:

parser = HTMLTreeParser.new()
parser.parse_file_named('whatever.html')
parser.tree.detect { |e| e.tag == 'table' }

and so on to get to individual elements. And, of course, you can use 
each() to traverse the structure.

Thanks,
-- 
Ned Konz
http://bike-nomad.com
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