From: Martin Hart <martin@...>
Date: 2004-02-06T02:24:24+09:00
Subject: HTML Parsing?


Hi all,

I need to access an http server and interpret som data from the page i get 
back (basically for some minimal tests of a website).  I know that I can use 
the Net::HTTP class to connect and retrieve the page, but then I am left with 
a string full of stuff.

What do people use to parse this into something useful?  Is REXML an option 
(although the html is not likely to be valid xml)?  I have looked at the 
html-parser on RAA but do not seem to be able to individually access the 
components of the returned page (for example I need to see what the contents 
of a text control are - or what the caption of the <h2> tag is.

I suppose using regexps is an option as well, but just wondering if I am 
missing some cool library that already does all this stuff?

Thanks for any advice

Martin

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