HTML

[scooter6 at gmail.com]

You could always use xslt to parse the html to csv and then import to
filePro from there
I have a large import that I do daily that parses XML and with proper tags
in your xslt it will parse the html pretty much the same way


On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 7:35 PM Bill Campbell via Filepro-list <
filepro-list at lists.celestial.com> wrote:

> 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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