From: Ned Konz <ned@...>
Date: 2002-06-05T01:37:52+09:00
Subject: Re: HTML Parser suggestions wanted

On Tuesday 04 June 2002 08:50 am, james@rubyxml.com wrote:

> True, but REXML is part of the Windows PragProg install, and it's
> quick and easy to install from source, anyway.

Yes, it's just another dependency.

> > 2. If I don't build an REXML tree, I could still return my own
> > elements from XPath queries. That is, I could use REXML
> > transparently and not expose the user to any of REXML's elements.
> > Would this be a preferable way to provide XPath support?
>
> Wouldn't REXML still need to be installed?

Only for XPath support (you can see my pre-1.03 at 
http://bike-nomad.com/ruby/ruby-htmltools-1.03.tar.gz)

> BTW, quick question: Is there any documentation (aside form the
> terse API docs) about your parser?

No, but there should be some (there is the RDoc stuff). Care to write 
it? I guess I was waiting for the API to stabilize. There will be an 
article in the near future on the O'Reilly site, I believe.

> Is there a way to grab the
> parsed HTML and assign it to a string?  All I've seen is how to
> write to a file.

No, but I'll add it. Is there a string IO class in Ruby? If there 
were, you could use print_on() (after I make it take a stream 
argument <g>).

I see stream.rb in the RAA, but don't know whether it would work well 
with Strings.

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