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Re: [Help-smalltalk] HTML parser in GST
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Holger Hans Peter Freyther |
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Re: [Help-smalltalk] HTML parser in GST |
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Sat, 05 Jun 2010 00:11:03 +0800 |
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On 06/04/2010 11:56 PM, Andrei Stebakov wrote:
> I've noticed there are a number of XML parsers in the package. I
> wonder if I can use it as an HTML parser (similar to Soup
> http://news.squeak.org/2009/01/19/soup-for-squeak/)
> Are there any examples using it? The task is a simple web page
> retrieval and parsing, hunting for some tag with a value.
Well,
HTML parsers are a funny thing... the best thing to do is to use the
HTML5 parser specification and implement it from scratch, to my
knowledge it is the first time that there is a specification on how to
handle missing tags (e.g. how many elements to close, aka tag priorities).