Hi guys Cheers for the advice guys, i think it's a little bit too late to go down the xsl route, as this is the last bit of functionality before it's ready to go.
Speaking on hpricot though, im going to spend a little bit of time this morning looking at that, after all i am only replacing html here really, so it could be that that solves all my problems really Cheers Adam On 28 Jan 2009, at 09:33, Francis Fish wrote: > > > On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 8:12 AM, Ciaran <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 9:02 PM, Caius Durling <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On 27 Jan 2009, at 17:04, Adam Holt wrote: > >> I'm having some trouble figuring out how to do some regular >> expression >> foo and thought maybe someone on here could help, >> >> Basically i am trying to parse out special tags from html returned >> from TinyMCE, and replace them with content for doing html to pdf >> generation. >> >> I've written a little gist page demonstrating what i need it to do: >> http://gist.github.com/53383 > > > I'd probably not try and do this all in one regex. I'd run through > line by line, if it matches the start line, save everything until it > matches the ending line. Then you have your entire string. > > C > I know this might be un-helpful, but I say it everytime anyone asks > this question in mailing lists, regular expressions are almost > certainly the wrong approach to take :) Is it possible to solve > your problem using XSL, which is far far better suited to removing/ > modifying elements in SGML-like documents. If the HTML isn't XHTML > etc then running it through some sort of tidier (I use TagSoup in > Java, not sure what is available in Ruby of the top of my head, but > there will be something!) first *will* make your life considerably > easier, honest :) > > > - cj. > > > Slaps self, and agrees with Caius. There's a standard XSD library > that lets you do XSL queries and the wonderful Hpricot, plus rails > has an extension that lets you turn well-formed XML into a hash > directly (not recommended here because you want to do queries on > it). D'oh. > > Did enjoy mucking about with the regexp tho'. Sad person that I am. > > -- > Thanks and regards, > > Francis Fish > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NWRUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nwrug-members?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
