[squeak-dev] Re: HTML parser (again) (again)

Sean P. DeNigris sean at clipperadams.com
Fri Oct 29 17:19:55 UTC 2010



Peter Kenny wrote:
> 
> It will parse a string of HTML from your system, using the on: method, but
> this falls over if the HTML is a downloaded web page including a reference
> to CSS on the web. There may be a way round this, but I haven't found it.
> 
Of course this is what i needed to use it for, lol.


Peter Kenny wrote:
> 
> b. Having loaded the parser, find the method HtmlDOMNode>>parseContents:
> and edit it as follows: find the two occurrences of the expression ('/',
> Character separators) and change each of them to (Character separators,
> '/').
> 
This worked, and I parsed google.com in 4.1.  So I can't use it because of
on: string, but it's nice to know it's an option in the future.


Peter Kenny wrote:
> 
> if you have written a package, you know how to use it, and writing
> detailed instructions for someone else is a pain.
> 
That's why I said that if one doesn't have time to do it properly, throw a
paragraph into an Info package class comment.  Compared to the cost of
developing the library, this is negligible.  It probably takes longer to
create the project on SqS and upload :)

Thanks.
Sean
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