From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2004-02-08T22:10:15+09:00
Subject: Re: HTML Parsing (round 2)

On Sunday, February 8, 2004, 11:38:24 PM, Martin wrote:

> On Sunday 08 February 2004 10:40, daz wrote:
>> It seems that Johannes' idea is to include sgml-parser with the
>> updated htmltools library.  
>> [snip]
>>

> Thanks - I got there in the end anyway by manually installing all the files I
> had downloaded and tweaking them as necessary.

> Just to append a note to the mini thread that started on packaging as a result
> of this...  while a packaging system with all the works would be great, It
> seems to me what is really needed soonest is a definitive place where we can
> take downloads from.  I got the versions of code that I am using from RAA...

> Where I came unstuck is that there appear to be two different(?) versions of
> ruby-htmltools.  One by Ned Konz that is linked to from RAA, and one by
> Johannes Brodwall that is on rubyforge.  I don't know the history of these -
> it may well be that they are the same product that has changed ownership etc,
> but it does cause confusion (at least in my case :-) when two people download
> the same thing from two different places.  There is no common frame of
> reference, we think that we are talking about the same code but we may not
> be.  

True, but this is an isolated case.  I've never seen so much
fragmentation with a Ruby library as I've seen with htmltools :)

Since there is an htmltools project on RubyForge, that should become
the definitive one, once it's ensured that it's fully up to date.
I'll be doing more HTML parsing fairly soon, so I'll try to do my bit
in this area.

Cheers,
Gavin