Posted by "Jared Williams" on 01/08/06 13:52

> I have an HTML document at home (the Firefox bookmarks
> output) that I was trying to parse this morning, with many
> links as such:
> <a href="http://www.aximsite.com/articles/link.php?id=22"
> add_date="1130275531" last_charset="windows-1252"
> id="rdf:#$FOQot">Knowledge Base: What Can I Do With My Axim?</a>
>
> I want to parse it to remove the attributes add_date,
> last_charset, id, and others that are in other entries. The
> text of the file it produces is 22 kb but the HTML is over 500 kb!
>
> I don't have the code with me that I was trying (I'm not at
> home now- but it has been nagging me all day), but I was
> running into problems and could NOT get it to just remove the
> attributes. One regex solution left me with <a></a> and
> others with <>, <a href="http://address"
> ="something" ="somehing else">blahblah</a>, etc...
>
> How can I get it to remove, say, attribute xxx and the ="something"
> that follows it? In all fairness I am not good at regexes and
> need to practice, but I would appreciate any help I can get-
> I'm really bogged down with studies and simply cannot devote
> a full day to this 'trivial' excercise.

I'd forget regexps and use SAX style parser. Trivial then to remove unwanted attributes.

Jared

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