Re: How to recover text from a web page

2010-09-22 Thread Sumner, Walt
: http://revmentor.com/business-logic-screen-scraping-1 http://revmentor.com/business-logic-screen-scraping-0 On 21 September 2010 22:16, Sumner, Walt WSUMNER at dom.wustl.edu wrote: I am trying to recover text from this web page and all of its siblings: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1

How to recover text from a web page

2010-09-21 Thread Sumner, Walt
I am trying to recover text from this web page and all of its siblings: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/keep-life-saving-electronic-cigarettes-available/#sigs/691732733/user/1 The interesting part of the page is the comments, which do not appear in the HTML, but which can be copied manually. I

Re: WWDC Keynote: HTML5 wide open for On-Rev revServer

2010-06-08 Thread Sumner, Walt
Sorry if this has been discussed and I missed it, but it looks like Firefox 4 (or 3.7, or earlier) hopes to deliver HTML5 and multitouch, as well as the local data storage. Do we know if On-Rev is on track to host multitouch browser interfaces? If so, I would suddenly have a compelling reason

Background image problems

2009-06-04 Thread Sumner, Walt
Can anyone shed some light on using paint tools and imagedata on images in a bg group? Here's my situation: I have either 1 or 3 pictures to generate, each held by a separate image object. The user adjusts a bunch of settings and then presses a button to generate new pictures. To let the user

2.7 bugs in variable watcher, table fields

2006-03-20 Thread Sumner,Walt
Anybody else having these problems? 1. Mac OS X: Run a script with a breakpoint. Open the message watcher at the breakpoint. Open the variable watcher after opening the message watcher. Variable watcher echos variable names, refuses to display variable values. Close message watcher. Step

Inserting XML nodes

2005-12-13 Thread Sumner,Walt
Does anyone know of a clean way to insert a child among a list of XML child nodes in a tree, rather than appending the node at the end of the parent node's list of children? I am using an XML structure to store data during and between user sessions, and ultimately to communicate with other

Re: surprising filter benchmarks

2005-07-12 Thread Sumner,Walt
The difference is quite a bit smaller if the loop checks the number of items, as the filter is designed to do. Still usually a 3 to 6 fold difference, loop being faster. ... if item 1 of tLine contains a \ AND item 2 of tLine contains r\ AND item 3 of tLine is r