On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 8:56 PM, Johan Sundström <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 11:33 AM, esquifit <[email protected]> wrote: >> Yahoo! has launched a service (YQL) that makes possible to get a well-formed >> XML document from any publicly accessible web page, even if the page uses >> HTML instead of XHTML. Furthermore, one can fetch only a portion of the xml >> by specifying an xpath selector. > > Interesting hack, though their HTML parser doesn't seem to do a very > good job. It fails for even some w3c valid HTML like > http://www.lysator.liu.se/~jhs/test-ml.html when I test it at their > http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/console/ console (query: select * from > html where url="http://johan.dev.mashlogic.com/test/index.html";).
Right. Or almost right. They are aware of the problem and they're working in improving the service, see [1]. Surprisingly, the described procedure seems to work only with html, not with xhtml, as in your example, but in this case you can use a different approach: if you insist in using YQL, you can query the xml 'table' instead of html: select * from xml where url='http://johan.dev.mashlogic.com/test/index.html' Besides this, if you are only interested in parsing an xhtml document from within Greasemonkey, you can DOMParse the responseText property directly. [1] http://developer.yahoo.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=508 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "greasemonkey-users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greasemonkey-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
