From: Harry Ohlsen <harryo@...>
Date: 2003-10-13T09:36:55+09:00
Subject: Re: XPath and HTML

Chad Fowler wrote:
> Sort of.  I shouldn't have said "HTML Parser2".  The right name seems to 
> be ruby-htmltools.  It integrates with REXML and allows you to do this:
> 
> parser = HTMLTree::Parser.new(true, true)
> parser.feed(file.readlines.join)
> tree = parser.tree.html_node.as_rexml_document
> tree.elements.to_a('*/table').each do |element|
>   # do something with element
> end

I take it the need for putting ruby-htmltools in the middle is that generally HTML isn't clean XML? So, I take it the tools do things like turn "<br>" int "<br/>" and stick "</p>" at the end of paragraphs, that sort of thing?

Could be very useful for a number of things!

Harry O.