HTML to XML - XSL - XML

#1 (**permalink**) 07-17-2008, 10:04 PM

Hi,

I need transform one Html page to XML, I need extract any data. any idea?

Thank

PTTK

#2 (**permalink**) 07-18-2008, 08:58 AM

On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 21:20:15 +0200, Sergio Pottstock <pttk@pttk.cl> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I need transform one Html page to XML, I need extract any data. any idea?

Simple string operations.
If the HTML pages are valid XML already and you just need to transform it
into another shape, you could use XPath or XSLT.

Stefan

#3 (**permalink**) 07-18-2008, 04:13 PM

Thank Stefan:

Some example to see?........

Thank

PTTK

"Stefan M. Huber" <looseleaf@gmx.net> escribió en el mensaje
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> On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 21:20:15 +0200, Sergio Pottstock <pttk@pttk.cl> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I need transform one Html page to XML, I need extract any data. any
idea?
>
> Simple string operations.
> If the HTML pages are valid XML already and you just need to transform it
> into another shape, you could use XPath or XSLT.
>
> Stefan

#4 (**permalink**) 07-19-2008, 11:51 AM

On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:02:33 +0200, Sergio Pottstock <pttk@pttk.cl> wrote:

> Thank Stefan:
>
> Some example to see?........

How about a little bit of spirit of research?

http://www.google.com/search?client=...utf-8&oe=utf-8
http://www.google.com/search?client=...utf-8&oe=utf-8

Remember: XPath only works if the HTML page is well formed. Which
99.99999999% of all websites aren't.
I did not look for DOM parsers who create a dom tree from incorrect XML
data. There might be some of them out there. As long as you have a DOM
tree for your document, XPath helps.

Otherwise, it's manual work.

Stefan

#5 (**permalink**) 07-20-2008, 08:51 PM

Thank Stefan

PTTK

"Stefan M. Huber" <looseleaf@gmx.net> escribió en el mensaje
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> On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:02:33 +0200, Sergio Pottstock <pttk@pttk.cl> wrote:
>
> > Thank Stefan:
> >
> > Some example to see?........
>
> How about a little bit of spirit of research?
>
>
http://www.google.com/search?client=...utf-8&oe=utf-8
>
http://www.google.com/search?client=...utf-8&oe=utf-8
>
> Remember: XPath only works if the HTML page is well formed. Which
> 99.99999999% of all websites aren't.
> I did not look for DOM parsers who create a dom tree from incorrect XML
> data. There might be some of them out there. As long as you have a DOM
> tree for your document, XPath helps.
>
> Otherwise, it's manual work.
>
> Stefan