[cgiapp] [Fwd: Re: ValidateRM not PP]

[Lyle]

Michael Peters wrote:
> Lyle wrote:
>
>> I've looked for one, the only one I could find is HTML::TagParser but 
>> it isn't suitable as it can't be used to recreate the page. Also 
>> looking at the source it uses regexp.
>
> Just looking at the source code briefly, it seems that it's using 
> regexes as part of it's lexing/tokenizing, which is completely 
> appropriate.

I've contacted him about a possible patch to allow HTML::TagParser to 
update the DOM style tag changes into the original HTML. We've exchanged 
a couple of emails so with a bit of luck we might come up with a 
solution. It'd certainly be a lot quicker than starting from scratch.

>> As much as the idea of writing a Pure Perl parser intrigues me, I 
>> don't have the time :( Especially as at this time I wouldn't actually 
>> be using it (my script is generating all the html input tags and 
>> parsing them into the html template).
>
> Have you thought about maybe using an XML module? XML::SAX has a pure 
> perl driver. Maybe if your HTML is XHTML it could work. Or if you 
> want, you can probably use a libxml based module. It's extremely 
> common (installed on most systems) and has an forgiving/HTML mode.

I'll see how it goes with HTML::TagParser, then look into this if needs 
be. Thanks for the pointer :)


Lyle