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Group: comp.lang.c++.moderated · Group Profile
Author: Ian CollinsIan Collins Date: May 10, 2008 18:26
{ Accepted as follow-up. Further discussion of general tools for HTML tidying
would be off-topic (as I see you're aware :-) ) unless there is some C++
content. -mod }
marlow.andrew@ googlemail.com wrote: > But I am not so sure about my case. My need is to parse HTML for use
> by a screen scraper. The trouble is, most web pages, including the
> ones I am scraping, have ill-formed HTML. How does your library cope
> with that? I eventually gave up trying to do this in C++ and used
> python instead. It has a package called BeautifulSoup which is
> designed specifically to cope with ill-formed HTML.
>
htmltidy is your friend in this case. Your system may have it
installed, otherwise it is very easy to build and use.
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