Posted by Toby A Inkster on 04/20/07 08:46

Robert Maas, see http://tinyurl.com/uh3t wrote:

> But since I have a whole bunch of current needs for parsing various
> kinds of HTML files, and I don't want to have to write a separate
> hack for each format, all flakey/bugridden, I finally decided to
> <cliche>bite the bullet</cliche> and write a genuine HTML parser.

Congratulations. Real parsers are fun.

But wouldn't it have been a bit easier to reuse one of the many existing
parsers? e.g. http://opensource.franz.com/xmlutils/xmlutils-dist/phtml.htm

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