HTML parsing
 

I need to parse the following HTML page and extract TV listing data
using VC++

http://tvlistings.zap2it.com/tvlistings/ZCGrid.do

any good way to extract the data?

is easy for VC++ to call PERL script and do some regular expression?

since the HTML page is not XML well formed, I cannot use a XML parser
right?

any other good ways to extract HTML page data?

Re: HTML parsing
 

worlman385@yahoo.com wrote:

: I need to parse the following HTML page and extract TV listing data
: using VC++

: http://tvlistings.zap2it.com/tvlistings/ZCGrid.do

: any good way to extract the data?

: is easy for VC++ to call PERL script and do some regular expression?

: since the HTML page is not XML well formed, I cannot use a XML parser
: right?

: any other good ways to extract HTML page data?

Perl, HTML::Parser (my spelling is right but case may be wrong).

#!perl
use strict;
use HTML::Parser;
... perl code, etc...

As an aside, this is also an excellent tool for sax-like parsing of xml.
It has an xml mode that expects properly balanced tags, and etc, and
though it it doesn't handle all xml features, HTML::Parser comes with
almost all distros of perl, which means that any a script that uses it can
work with almost any installation of perl, even if you can't install
anything additional (a real life saver in a controlled environment).

Re: HTML parsing
 

worlman385@yahoo.com wrote:
> I need to parse the following HTML page and extract TV listing data
> using VC++
>
> http://tvlistings.zap2it.com/tvlistings/ZCGrid.do
>
> any good way to extract the data?
>
> is easy for VC++ to call PERL script and do some regular expression?
>
> since the HTML page is not XML well formed, I cannot use a XML parser
> right?
>
> any other good ways to extract HTML page data?

Pass the page through HTML Tidy, which produces well-formed XHTML.
Then use XSLT to extract what you need.

///Peter
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