Re: [libxml-devel] Request to add HTML parsing

2006-08-15 Thread Ross Bamford
Hi Mark, On Tue, 18 Jul 2006 02:34:18 +0100, Mark Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm switching to Ruby from Perl, and currently I do all my HTML parsing > in > perl's XML::LibXML. Applying XPath to parse HTML is extremely powerful > and > fast, fast, fast in libxml. > > Can you add tha

Re: [libxml-devel] Request to add HTML parsing

2006-07-19 Thread Ross Bamford
On Tue, 18 Jul 2006 14:16:11 +0100, zdennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > TRANS wrote: >> ... Once again it seems all >> the libxml developers have vanished. :( I'm not a C coder or I would >> be working on it myself. What has happened? Why is thi

Re: [libxml-devel] Request to add HTML parsing

2006-07-18 Thread Mark Thomas
TRANS wrote: > On 7/18/06, Yann Klis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> If you'd like to do HTML parsing, you'd better use RubyfoulSoup >> http://www.crummy.com/software/RubyfulSoup/ which is a port of >> BeautifulSoup to Python, and IMHO better adapted to HTML parsing than >> libxml. > > Isn't that REX

Re: [libxml-devel] Request to add HTML parsing

2006-07-18 Thread Aitor Garay-Romero
   OK, the mailing list software complaints that the message is too big.  I send the files compressed (please read below).On 7/18/06, Aitor Garay-Romero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Hi there!,     I did some work myself to allow libxml-ruby to parse HTML directly from an string.  I was thinking on im

Re: [libxml-devel] Request to add HTML parsing

2006-07-18 Thread TRANS
On 7/18/06, Yann Klis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you'd like to do HTML parsing, you'd better use RubyfoulSoup > http://www.crummy.com/software/RubyfulSoup/ which is a port of > BeautifulSoup to Python, and IMHO better adapted to HTML parsing than > libxml. Isn't that REXML based though? Be th

Re: [libxml-devel] Request to add HTML parsing

2006-07-18 Thread Yann Klis
If you'd like to do HTML parsing, you'd better use RubyfoulSoup http://www.crummy.com/software/RubyfulSoup/ which is a port of BeautifulSoup to Python, and IMHO better adapted to HTML parsing than libxml. ++ yk Mark Thomas a écrit : > I'm switching to Ruby from Perl, and currently I do all my

Re: [libxml-devel] Request to add HTML parsing

2006-07-18 Thread zdennis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 TRANS wrote: > On 7/18/06, zdennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>I don't think they have vanished. It's been a little over a week since Ross >>has sent an email to this ML. Perhaps he is on >>vacation or is finishing a project outside of libxml a

Re: [libxml-devel] Request to add HTML parsing

2006-07-18 Thread TRANS
On 7/18/06, zdennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't think they have vanished. It's been a little over a week since Ross > has sent an email to this ML. Perhaps he is on > vacation or is finishing a project outside of libxml atm. Oh! I hope it is so! Sorry if I've jumped to conclusions. I s

Re: [libxml-devel] Request to add HTML parsing

2006-07-18 Thread zdennis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 TRANS wrote: > On 7/17/06, Mark Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>I'm switching to Ruby from Perl, and currently I do all my HTML parsing in >>perl's XML::LibXML. Applying XPath to parse HTML is extremely powerful and >>fast, fast, fast in libxml.

Re: [libxml-devel] Request to add HTML parsing

2006-07-17 Thread TRANS
On 7/17/06, Mark Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm switching to Ruby from Perl, and currently I do all my HTML parsing in > perl's XML::LibXML. Applying XPath to parse HTML is extremely powerful and > fast, fast, fast in libxml. > > Can you add that feature to the Ruby one? I think it would b

[libxml-devel] Request to add HTML parsing

2006-07-17 Thread Mark Thomas
I'm switching to Ruby from Perl, and currently I do all my HTML parsing in perl's XML::LibXML. Applying XPath to parse HTML is extremely powerful and fast, fast, fast in libxml. Can you add that feature to the Ruby one? I think it would be easy to do; it's just a flag on the parser, which tells li