How would I go about parsing HTML in C++ on my Webserver Application?
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How about just a bit more detail. Are you writing an actual web server or an application on one.
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How about just a bit more detail. Are you writing an actual web server or an application on one.
rerun
2010-02-16 03:43:16
I wrote an actual Webserver it gets basic HTML bautomatically by windows but does not know Div tags and what not
H4cKL0rD
2010-02-16 03:44:52
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It will mainly depend on what you want to do retrieve in your webpage. You can try boost::spirit to create your own parser. (Or a Yacc/Lex parser).
If your are looking for more simple information in the HTML page, getc may be good enough...
Phong
2010-02-16 03:43:22
+1
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libxml2 has a HTML parser. libxml++ is a wrapper for libxml2, but I'm not sure if it exposes the HTMLparser functionality.
Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
2010-02-16 03:43:34
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Looks like QT Dom parser is the winner
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/489522/library-recommendation-c-html-parser
Joshua Smith
2010-02-16 03:45:13
Assuming you're using Qt of course. Otherwise you're adding a lot of baggage to your app.
Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
2010-02-16 03:49:48
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Hand parsing gets messy, even for relatively trivial cases.
Have you considered a Lexer/Parser, such as Flex/Bison? I highly recommend Antlr - and get AntlrWorks.
A picture is worth a thousand words, so this will tell you why - http://www.antlr.org/works/screenshots/editor.jpg
Mawg
2010-02-16 03:47:06