Posted by gosha bine on 08/02/07 17:42

Rik wrote:
> DOM functions? <http://nl3.php.net/dom>

Yes, or a SAX parser like pear HTML_SAX. DOM is still too picky about
invalid html.

> I've taken a stab at it with regexes in the past, which works quite well
> as long as you can be sure it's stricly valid HTML. If it isn't, or
> you're using outside sources where this isn't known, don't use regular
> expressions for something a parser ought to be doing.

Yes, regexps suck as a parser, however in most cases you need just a
lexer and that's the job regexps do quite well.


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gosha bine

extended php parser ~ http://code.google.com/p/pihipi
blok ~ http://www.tagarga.com/blok

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