Hi Zulq,
semantinc web is here so this is interesting stuff. I can't think about
aplicability for myself right now but knowing we can make that if needed feels
just good.
In case you want to share, what are you going to use it for?
Cheers,
Sebastian

> -----Mensaje original-----
> De: squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org 
> [mailto:squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org] En 
> nombre de Zulq Alam
> Enviado el: Jueves, 25 de Diciembre de 2008 07:03
> Para: squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> Asunto: [squeak-dev] [ANN] Soup 0.1
> 
> Soup is a port of Beautiful Soup [1]. If you're not familiar with 
> Beautiful Soup, it is a tolerant HTML/XML parser written in 
> Python and 
> is extremely useful when you need to scrape data from a web page.
> 
> soup := Soup fromUrl: 'http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=squeak'.
> results := soup findAllTags:
>    [:e |
>    e name = 'h3'
>      and: [(e attributeAt: 'class') = 'r']].
> links := results collect: [:e | e text -> e a href].
> 
> Squeak Smalltalk
>    -> http://www.squeak.org/
> Squeak Smalltalk: Download
>    -> http://www.squeak.org/Download/
> Squeak - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
>    -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squeak
> etc...
> 
> The main differences in API are:
> 
>    - find*Tag(s) for tags
>    - find*String(s) for strings, CData, declarations, processing
>      instructions
>    - the use of blocks for complex queries
> 
> For more usage information browse the searching tags and searching 
> strings protocols on SoupElement subclasses. Also look at the 
> tests in 
> SoupElementTest, SoupTagTest and SoupParserTest. I will write/port 
> proper documentation later.
> 
> There are still many things to do:
> 
>    - No attempt is made to deal with different character sets and
>      encodings. This is a major feature of Beautiful Soup which I have
>      so far ignored.
> 
>    - The parser will not convert entity or char refs. Although this is
>      the default behavior for Beautiful Soup on HTML it is still an
>      important feature.
> 
>    - The parser will not accept options such as whether to convert
>      entities, which entities to convert, what to parse, etc.
> 
>    - The parser will only do HTML. Unlike Beautiful Soup there are no
>      configurations for other XML flavors yet.
> 
> The project is globally writable. I look forward to your feedback and 
> contributions.
> 
> Thanks,
> Zulq.
> 
> [1] http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/
> [2] http://www.squeaksource.com/Soup.html
> 
>