HTML

[Bill Campbell]

On Tue, Nov 12, 2019, Fairlight via Filepro-list wrote:
>The whole problem with that tech is that it's a moving target.  It's slower
>moving than it used to be, but there are vast differences between 3, 3.2,
>4, XHTML, and 5.
>
>I would not want to have to support that, long-term.  I do not envy you,
>unless it's one hell of a revenue stream.

I've done a fair amount of html parsing, mostly using the python urllib,
sometimes running the html through tidy to clean it up before digging into
it.  Tidy will parse the html into well-formed xhtml making parsing the
output much easier.

I often parse the body of the HTML with regular expressions, finding that
easier than running through libraries like the python lxml etree parser.

Bill
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