html-parsing

Little Regular Expression (against HTML) help

Hi, I have the following HTML <p>Some text <a title="link" href="http://link.com/" target="_blank">my link</a> more text <a title="link" href="http://link.com/" target="_blank">more link</a>.</p> <p>Another paragraph.</p> <p>[code:cf]</p> <p>&lt;cfset ArrFruits = ["Orange", "Apple", "Peach", "Blueberry", </p> <p>"Blackberry", "Strawber...

How do I make BeautifulSoup parse the contents of textarea tags as HTML?

Before 3.0.5, BeautifulSoup used to treat the contents of <textarea> as HTML. It now treats it as text. The document I am parsing has HTML inside the textarea tags, and I am trying to process it. I've tried: for textarea in soup.findAll('textarea'): contents = BeautifulSoup.BeautifulSoup(textarea.contents) textarea....

How to parse malformed HTML in python, using standard libraries

There are so many html and xml libraries built into python, that it's hard to believe there's no support for real-world HTML parsing. I've found plenty of great third-party libraries for this task, but this question is about the python standard library. Requirements: Use only Python standard library components (any 2.x version) DOM s...

Jquery to find a name on html page and add hyperlink

Here is my example: I have a a website that contains the following: <body> Jim Nebraska zipcode 65437 Tony lives in California his zipcode is 98708 </body> I would like to be able to search for zip codes on the page and wrap them with hyperlinks like: <body> Jim Nebraska zipcode <a href="/65437.htm">65437</a> Tony lives in California...

Extremely strange glitch in Chrome - parses contents of string!

Okay - this is the dumbest glitch I have seen in a while: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"&gt; <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> <head> <script type='text/javascript'> var data = "</script>"; </script> </head> <body> This...

PHP parsing invalid html

hi , i'm trying to parse some html that is not on my server $dom = new DOMDocument(); $dom->loadHTMLfile("http://www.some-site.org/page.aspx"); echo $dom->getElementById('his_id')->item(0); but php returns an error something like ID his_id already defined in http://www.some-site.org/page.aspx, line: 33. I think th...

Unable to get nodeValue using DOMDocument class in PHP

I am Parsing a HTML document using DOMDocument Class in PHP, i wanted to get the nodeValue of a div element, but it is giving me null, <div id="summary"> Hi, my name is <span>ABC</span> <br/> address is here at stackoverflow... <span>.... .... </div> want to get the value inside the div, and the code i wrote wass $d...

Haskell Parse Paragraph and em element with Parsec

I'm using Text.ParserCombinators.Parsec and Text.XHtml to parse an input like this: this is the beginning of the paragraph --this is an emphasized text-- and this is the end\n And my output should be: <p>this is the beginning of the paragraph <em>this is an emphasized text</em> and this is the end\n</p> This code parses and returns a...

Managed (.net) library with html-tidy like functionality?

Does anybody know of an html cleaner for .NET that can parse html and (for instance) convert it to a more machine friendly format such as xhtml? I've tried the HTML Agility Pack, but that fails to correctly parse even fairly simple examples. To give an example of html that should be parsed correctly: <html><body> <ul><li>TestEle...

Split string into smaller part with constrain [PHP RegEx HTML]

Hello, I need to split long string into a array with following constrains: The input will be HTML string, may be full page or partial. Each part (new strings) will have a limited number of character (e.g. not more than 8000 character) Each part can contain multiple sentences (delimited by . [full stop]) but never a partial sentences. ...

parsing simple html for iphone

I have a very simple html page to parse. The html page will remain simple always. as simple as this <html> <head><title>title</title></head> <body>some data here</body> </html> I have fetched the html content of such an html page and have it in an NSString. I want to get what ever data is there in the body of the html page. Please ...

How do I parse an HTML website using Perl?

Could you please give me some suggestions on how to parse HTML in Perl? I plan to parse the keywords(including URL links) and save them to a MySQL database. I am using Windows XP. Also, do I first need to download some website pages to the local hard drive with some offline Explorer tool? If I do, could you point me to a good download t...

c# Network Programming - HTTPWebRequest Scraping

Hi, I am building a web scraping application. It should scrape a complex web site with concurrent HttpWebRequests from a single host to a single target web server. The application should run on Windows server 2008. One single HttpWebRequest for data could take from 1 minute to 4 minutes to complete (because of long running db operatio...

parse html table using ASP.NET

Hi, I need to read a html page and parse the contents of a table in that. I am using ASP.NET.Could anyone tell me how to do this. Thanks. ...

Killing HTML nodes from shell

Need a solution to kill nodes like <footer>foobar</footer> and <div class="nav"></div> from many several HTML files. I want to dump a site to disk without the menus and footers and what not. Ideally I would accomplish this task using basic unix tools like sed. Since it's not XML I can't use xmlstarlet. Could anyone please suggest recip...

How to use JQuery to truncate the contents of option tags?

Hello! Please take a look here: http://www.binarymark.com/Products/FLVDownloader/order.aspx What I am trying to do is to get rid of the prices inside the option tag. On that page you can see a drop-down box under Order Information, Product. I want to remove the prices from all the options that contain them in that box, so get rid of " ...

HTML Purifier: Converting <body> to <div>

Premise I'd like to use HTML Purifier to transform <body> tags to <div> tags, to preserve inline styling on the <body> element, e.g. <body style="background:color#000000;">Hi there.</body> would turn to <div style="background:color#000000;">Hi there.</div>. I'm looking at a combination of a custom tag and a TagTransform class. Current ...

Extracting email addresses in an html block in ruby/rails

I am creating a parser that wards off against spamming and harvesting of emails from a block of text that comes from tinyMCE (so it may or may not have html tags in it) I've tried regexes and so far this has been successful: /\b[A-Z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\.[A-Z]{2,4}\b/i problem is, i need to ignore all email addresses with mailto hre...

C#: HtmlAgilityPack extract inner text

I am using HtmlAgilityPack. Is there a one line code that I can get all inner text of html, e.g., remove all html tags and scripts? ...

IE: position two text lines on top and bottom corners in table cell?

I have a table with dynamic data. And there is a specific line of text which should be displayed only when a user hovers over the table row. This line of text should be 'fixed' to the table cell's bottom edge. It works so far with Firefox, but fails in IE. Live code can be seen here: http://2010resolutions.org/test/index.html The text...