Equivalent of Perl HTML::TreeBuilder?
 

Is there a well-known, supported Ruby equivalent to Perl's
HTML::TreeBuilder?

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Re: Equivalent of Perl HTML::TreeBuilder?
 

John W. Kennedy wrote:

> Is there a well-known, supported Ruby equivalent to Perl's
> HTML::TreeBuilder?
>

Yes - you can use ruby htmltools:
http://bike-nomad.com/ruby/

You can use these to get a REXML parse tree from ordinary HTML. You can
then use XPATH expressions on the resultant tree.

Have used this for a few projects and had no problems.

cheers
alex

Re: Equivalent of Perl HTML::TreeBuilder?
 

Alex Fenton wrote:
> John W. Kennedy wrote:
>
> > Is there a well-known, supported Ruby equivalent to Perl's
> > HTML::TreeBuilder?
> >
>
> Yes - you can use ruby htmltools:
> http://bike-nomad.com/ruby/
>

That lib (updated) now lives here:
http://rubyforge.org/projects/ruby-htmltools/

>
> cheers
> alex
>

:daz