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**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [June 12, 2009, 10:09pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/noob-html-trees-parsing/170151 "2009-06-12T22:09:58Z")\
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**Author:**  [@dreamwave](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dreamwave)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2009, 10:09pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/noob-html-trees-parsing/170151/1 "2009-06-12T22:09:58Z")
Hi all.
Noob, first project, read the Poignant Guide, et al.
I have a big Perl script that parses badly-formed HTML files with HTML
Element/Tree. I think it’s time for an update.
I think the equivalent in Ruby is Hpricot? I haven’t found a lot of dox
on this, so I am assuming that this type of problem is something that
becomes ‘obvious’ once you start working in Ruby. Or should I be
looking at another/better solution (as in, duh, it’s got XXX built-in,
noob…)?
TIA
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**Author:**  [@dreamwave](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dreamwave)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2009, 9:27pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/noob-html-trees-parsing/170151/2 "2009-06-13T21:27:19Z")
Michael Lesser wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> Noob, first project, read the Poignant Guide, et al.
>
> I have a big Perl script that parses badly-formed HTML files with HTML
> Element/Tree. I think it’s time for an update.
>
> I think the equivalent in Ruby is Hpricot? I haven’t found a lot of dox
> on this, so I am assuming that this type of problem is something that
> becomes ‘obvious’ once you start working in Ruby. Or should I be
> looking at another/better solution (as in, duh, it’s got XXX built-in,
> noob…)?
>
> TIA
You might want to take a look at html5lib \<
[html5lib · GitHub](http://code.google.com/p/html5lib/) \> for parsing bad markup.