From: alex fenton <alex@...>
Date: 2004-04-02T07:54:22+09:00
Subject: Re: HTML parsing by REXML

Hi

Paul Argentoff wrote:

> Sorry for returning to sorta well-discussed (but not in a sense I need) topic. 
> I can't parse xml files by rexml since some tags in html are open (such as 
> <link>, etc). Document.new errors with a message about such a tag.
> 
> Is there any workaround? I really like and accustomed to REXML and don't want 
> to use another lib.

You want Ned Konz's HTML tools.

http://bike-nomad.com/ruby/index.html

These are based on html-parser (so it'll work with any HTML, not just 
XHTML), and allow you to treat the resultant parse tree as an REXML 
document (so you can search it using XPath etc). I've used it in a few 
apps and it works perfectly.

cheers
alex