Relatively easy HTML/XML parsing utilities?

Rails
1

Anyone know of any Ruby modules which can be used to parse an HTML page
?

Thanks,
Wes

2

On Mar 22, 2006, at 12:22 PM, Wes G. wrote:

Anyone know of any Ruby modules which can be used to parse an HTML
page
?

Thanks,
Wes

For this your best bet is probably RubyfulSoup. Its pretty liberal

with malformed html.

Cheers-
-Ezra Z.
Yakima Herald-Republic
WebMaster

509-577-7732
[email protected]

3

Sure, try the net/http module. You can see a very brief demonstration
it’s use over at my blog.

http://www.recentrambles.com/pragmatic/view/34

On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 21:22 +0100, Wes G. wrote:

Anyone know of any Ruby modules which can be used to parse an HTML page
?

Thanks,
Wes

Charlie B.
Programmer
Castle Branch Inc.

4

Ezra,

Thanks. Searching semantics easier than XPath? We’ll see…I will
take a look at it.

Wes

Ezra Z. wrote:

On Mar 22, 2006, at 12:22 PM, Wes G. wrote:

Anyone know of any Ruby modules which can be used to parse an HTML
page
?

Thanks,
Wes

For this your best bet is probably RubyfulSoup. Its pretty liberal
with malformed html.

Cheers-
-Ezra Z.
Yakima Herald-Republic
WebMaster
http://yakimaherald.com
509-577-7732
[email protected]