yes, I know I can use cygwin tools or lynx, w3m, etc., to take an html file and change it to text, but has anyone written a d library to do this?

Thanks,

josé

jicman wrote:
> yes, I know I can use cygwin tools or lynx, w3m, etc., to take an html file and
> change it to text, but has anyone written a d library to do this?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> josé
> 
> 

I've just written such a thing for C#... code is mostly platform-agnostic so it should move to D easily enough.  It looks like C and scares everyone, which is why I like it :)  Interested?

He he he he... c doesn't scare me. ;-)  Neither does c#. :-)  yes, please.  I would love to have it.  Would you be so kind as to email it to,

cabrera
at
wrc.xerox.com

thanks.

josé

James Dunne says...
>
>jicman wrote:
>> yes, I know I can use cygwin tools or lynx, w3m, etc., to take an html file and change it to text, but has anyone written a d library to do this?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> josé
>> 
>> 
>
>I've just written such a thing for C#... code is mostly platform-agnostic so it should move to D easily enough.  It looks like C and scares everyone, which is why I like it :)  Interested?

Here's a PCRE regex that will do it

"jicman" <jicman_member@pathlink.com> wrote in message news:dqpvdf$1h3j$1@digitaldaemon.com...
>
> yes, I know I can use cygwin tools or lynx, w3m, etc., to take an html
file and
> change it to text, but has anyone written a d library to do this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> josé
>
>

Oops,

char [] htmlContents = `<([^>])+>|&([^;])+;`; // to extract all <tag> plain
text </tag> from html


"Charles" <noone@nowhere.com> wrote in message news:dr2tmr$2g9a$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> Here's a PCRE regex that will do it
>
> "jicman" <jicman_member@pathlink.com> wrote in message news:dqpvdf$1h3j$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> >
> > yes, I know I can use cygwin tools or lynx, w3m, etc., to take an html
> file and
> > change it to text, but has anyone written a d library to do this?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > josé
> >
> >
>
>

jicman wrote:
> He he he he... c doesn't scare me. ;-)  Neither does c#. :-)  yes, please.  I
> would love to have it.  Would you be so kind as to email it to,
> 
> cabrera
> at
> wrc.xerox.com
> 
> thanks.
> 
> josé
> 
> James Dunne says...
> 
>>jicman wrote:
>>
>>>yes, I know I can use cygwin tools or lynx, w3m, etc., to take an html file and
>>>change it to text, but has anyone written a d library to do this?
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>
>>>josé
>>>
>>>
>>
>>I've just written such a thing for C#... code is mostly platform-agnostic so it should move to D easily enough.  It looks like C and scares everyone, which is why I like it :)  Interested?
> 
> 
> 

So, keep me in suspense...

-- 
Regards,
James Dunne

Charles wrote:
> Oops,
> 
> char [] htmlContents = `<([^>])+>|&([^;])+;`; // to extract all <tag> plain
> text </tag> from html
> 
> 
> "Charles" <noone@nowhere.com> wrote in message
> news:dr2tmr$2g9a$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> 
>>Here's a PCRE regex that will do it
>>
>>"jicman" <jicman_member@pathlink.com> wrote in message
>>news:dqpvdf$1h3j$1@digitaldaemon.com...
>>
>>>yes, I know I can use cygwin tools or lynx, w3m, etc., to take an html
>>
>>file and
>>
>>>change it to text, but has anyone written a d library to do this?
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>
>>>josé
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
> 
> 

What about reflowing whitespace runs?  BR tags to newlines, P tags, ordered lists, bulleted lists?  Incorrect tag close nestings?  (i.e. <i><b></i></b>)  Not to mention that you have to parse each tag's attributes so you don't accidentally hit a right angle bracket inside a string value...  HTML/XML comments...  the list never ends.

This is why HTML is such a hacked standard.

-- 
Regards,
James Dunne

> This is why HTML is such a hacked standard.

Yea I agree .  I've been using AJAX lately but its hard for me to get over how 'hackish' it is , jumping through tons of hurdles just to overcome the limitations of HTTP/HTML. Have you seen HTML 2.0 ? http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html-spec/html-spec_toc.html .


I'd love to see a new design language for the web , with some better widgets and connection based .  Using Mango for the server and the Harmonia code base to display this unnamed new language :D.



"James Dunne" <james.jdunne@gmail.com> wrote in message news:drf2b5$gb9$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> Charles wrote:
> > Oops,
> >
> > char [] htmlContents = `<([^>])+>|&([^;])+;`; // to extract all <tag>
plain
> > text </tag> from html
> >
> >
> > "Charles" <noone@nowhere.com> wrote in message news:dr2tmr$2g9a$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> >
> >>Here's a PCRE regex that will do it
> >>
> >>"jicman" <jicman_member@pathlink.com> wrote in message news:dqpvdf$1h3j$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> >>
> >>>yes, I know I can use cygwin tools or lynx, w3m, etc., to take an html
> >>
> >>file and
> >>
> >>>change it to text, but has anyone written a d library to do this?
> >>>
> >>>Thanks,
> >>>
> >>>josé
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>
> What about reflowing whitespace runs?  BR tags to newlines, P tags, ordered lists, bulleted lists?  Incorrect tag close nestings?  (i.e. <i><b></i></b>)  Not to mention that you have to parse each tag's attributes so you don't accidentally hit a right angle bracket inside a string value...  HTML/XML comments...  the list never ends.
>
> This is why HTML is such a hacked standard.
>
> --
> Regards,
> James Dunne