# Re: Decent HTML Parser?
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**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [July 12, 2006, 3:12am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-decent-html-parser/98028 "2006-07-12T03:12:25Z")\
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**Author:**  [@daveh](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/daveh)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2006, 3:12am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-decent-html-parser/98028/1 "2006-07-12T03:12:25Z")
On Jul 11, 2006, at 17:55, Kevin Weller wrote:
Ooooh, thanks, that might be just what the doctor ordered…especially
if it handles a single text line of an HTML document. Right now I have
a temporary solution that involves using ruby-htmltools to parse the
entire document, then finding the part that I want with an XPath query.
However, Rubyful Soup might turn out to be a better performer if it
does what I want. Thanks so much!
Yup, sounds like what you want.
I would have preferred to just parse the whole page in my app, but Soup
is so slow that I had to regex a bunch of the noise out of the way. I
throw the remnants to Soup; after which everything’s really easy.