I'd like to make a suggestion for an enhancement to the Scrape taglib. here's my suggestion: - The current functionality allows one to specify the 'begin' and 'end' strings between which to perform the scrape. - Unfortunately some sites have complex html so that trying to find the N'th '<table>' tag is cumbersome. (Perhaps the feature is already there, but I didn't see it in the docs) - Here's some code from the example page shipped with the scrape taglib: <scrp:scrape id="weather1" begin="<PRE>" end="</PRE>" anchors="true"/> - My suggestion is to include optional parameters which allows developers to specify the N'th occurance of the begin/end strings. Perhaps something like the following: <scrp:scrape id="weather1" begin="<PRE>" beginOccurance=9 end="</PRE>" endOccurance=3 anchors="true"/> In the above line the 'scrape' would begin starting the 9'th occurance of <PRE> and end at the third occurance of </PRE> from that point. The idea is that a developer is not necessarily scraping between html tags. It could be between any of the html for a given page. The ability to specify the N'th occurance of the begin/end strings would make the Scrape taglib even more powerful. I would do this myself, but I just don't know enough about the taglib architecture to actually modify and/or create some sample code to demonstrate the above suggestion. Jay Patel Core Energy Solutions <http://www.core-energy.com/> www.core-energy.com 713-215-7690
