Thanks for the warning and the link to the parsers, Trevor. I get the point regarding unclean HTML - as I won’t be in control of the source. Following a cursory glance through the dictionary, I’m also a tad concerned about the variability in HTML tag content (e.g.
<div class=“red box”>content & elements</div> vs. <div class=“box red”>content & elements</div> ...and hence, how much wrangling might be needed to identify all the nodes in the tree with a specific class, where jQuery’s "$j(‘.red’).html();” saves a lot of the heavy lifting involved. I’ll have a look at those parsers, too - though I doubt my coding chops are up to creating a library wrapper - indeed, I’ll have to Google what one is! :-) Best, Keith > On 26 Nov 2018, at 13:42, Trevor DeVore via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 3:30 AM Keith Clarke via use-livecode < > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > >> Thanks for the steer, Paul - I’ve not worked with XML in LiveCode so >> hadn’t made the connection between the HTML markup structure & XML. > > > Keith, > > I’ve used revXML for parsing HTML in somewhat controlled conditions. While > revXML can work for HTML, your results will vary based on how well > structured the HTML is. If there are tags that are not closed or are out of > balance then revXML won’t give you the results you expect. If you are > generating the HTML then it shouldn’t be a problem. If it is third party > HTML then you may have to massage the HTML input to get it to work. > > It would be great if there were a library wrapper around one of the > dedicated HTML parsers listed on this page: > > https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_HTML_parsers > > -- > Trevor DeVore > ScreenSteps > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
