> I have an HTML document at home (the Firefox bookmarks 
> output) that I was trying to parse this morning, with many 
> links as such:
> <a href="http://www.aximsite.com/articles/link.php?id=22";
> add_date="1130275531" last_charset="windows-1252"
> id="rdf:#$FOQot">Knowledge Base: What Can I Do With My Axim?</a>
> 
> I want to parse it to remove the attributes add_date, 
> last_charset, id, and others that are in other entries. The 
> text of the file it produces is 22 kb but the HTML is over 500 kb!
> 
> I don't have the code with me that I was trying (I'm not at 
> home now- but it has been nagging me all day), but I was 
> running into problems and could NOT get it to just remove the 
> attributes. One regex solution left me with <a></a> and 
> others with <>, <a href="http://address";
> ="something" ="somehing else">blahblah</a>, etc...
> 
> How can I get it to remove, say, attribute xxx and the ="something"
> that follows it? In all fairness I am not good at regexes and 
> need to practice, but I would appreciate any help I can get- 
> I'm really bogged down with studies and simply cannot devote 
> a full day to this 'trivial' excercise.

I'd forget regexps and use SAX style parser. Trivial then to remove unwanted 
attributes.

Jared

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