Need HTML Parser

barryb1

Does anyone know where I can find a script that can parse an HTML file and write the information to the screen or to a file.
Thanks

tomhath

The big problem you face is that "HTML" is not really defined. If you can be sure it's well formed according to some standard, then an XML parser might be able to handle it. But browsers tolerate all kinds of junk, and they all behave differently when they encounter junk. Do you want the information that would be displayed by IE or NS? With scripting and applets turned on or off? Do you just want to strip off the tags (php can do that with builtin functions). What about all the includes, script and other stuff that's not really HTML?

barryb1

I want to parse all the HTML tags plus any comments or include stuff and only have the text. The file is a web page (on NFL.com). I want to parse the stats from the games.

Here is an example of the file and what I want parse.

Thanks for the help

<TR align=right class=bg2>
<TD align=left width=60><A target=new
href=http://www.nfl.com/players/1151.htm>Watters</a></td><td>16</td><td>97</td><td>0</td><td>0</td>
<td width=7 class=bg3> </td>
<TD align=left width=60><A target=new
href=http://www.nfl.com/players/192822.htm>White</a></td><td>10</td><td>52</td><td>0</td><td>0</td></tr>
<TR align=right class=bg3>
<TD align=left width=60><A target=new
href=http://www.nfl.com/players/12429.htm>Hasselbeck</a></td><td>5</td><td>9</td><td>0</td><td>0</td>
<td width=7 class=bg3> </td>
<TD align=left width=60><A target=new
href=http://www.nfl.com/players/235220.htm>Jackson</a></td><td>14</td><td>37</td><td>0</td><td>0</td></tr>
<TR align=right class=bg2>
<TD align=left width=60><A target=new
href=http://www.nfl.com/players/187382.htm>Alexander</a></td><td>4</td><td>3</td><td>0</td><td>0</td>
<td width=7 class=bg3> </td>
<TD align=left width=60><A target=new
href=http://www.nfl.com/players/133260.htm>Couch</a></td><td>1</td><td>1</td><td>0</td><td>0</td></tr>
<TR align=right class=bg3>
<TD align=left width=60><A target=_new
href=http://www.nfl.com/players/1161.htm>Strong</a></td><td>1</td><td>0</td><td>0</td><td>0</td>
<td width=7 class=bg3> </td>
<TD colspan=5 class=bg3> </td></tr>

Output Example:

Watters|16|97|0|0

White|10|52|0|0

Hasselbeck|5|9|0|0

Jackson|14|37|0|0

gerardg

If you use COM, you can parse HTML using MS's MSHTML library.

You might also check out html-tidy - can't remember if it has a parser though.