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Hello everybody,

A database project is targeted to use a perl script to parse the html
file and picking few items from html file, it will insert those items
into database.

Could somebody explain their ideas or real experiences to do such
parsing job using libXML?

Thanks in advance
AR

John7481 wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> A database project is targeted to use a perl script to parse the html
> file and picking few items from html file, it will insert those items
> into database.

Assuming that your HTML is XML compliant (ei.e. XHTML), you could try using
XPath. It does a great job of finding specific information, and /should/
be installed with your Perl 5.8 system.

There is an introductory tutorial on http://w3schools.org

[SNIP]

HTH

--

Abhinav

John7481 wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> A database project is targeted to use a perl script to parse the html
> file and picking few items from html file, it will insert those items
> into database.
>
> Could somebody explain their ideas or real experiences to do such
> parsing job using libXML?
>
> Thanks in advance
> AR

These articles should help get you started:

http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/PerlJournal/col02.html
http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/PerlJournal/col03.html

The articles are titled 'Cleaning up your HTML', but its the same
concept, identifying tags/attributes.

After you initialize the parser object, call its recover() method if
you're not sure whether you're dealing with well-formed HTML.

HTH - keith