Re: [Help-smalltalk] HTML parser in GST

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 06/04/2010 06:11 PM, Holger Hans Peter Freyther wrote:
> 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.

If Soup has some kind of SAX interface it would be easy to use it to
build the DOM and then query it with XPath.

> 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).

Agreed.

Paolo