Paul
Further to my previous post, I have found a way to use XMLHTMLParser to give what you want (more or less). The method is pretty hackish, and I am sure it could be tidied up, but here it is: par := XMLHTMLParser onURL: 'http://pharo.org'. par parseDocumentUntil: [|top| (top := par topNode) notNil and: [ top isDocument not and: [ top isNamed: 'body']]]. (par parsingResult descendantElementsNamed: 'head') first inspect. You will see that I cheat by scanning until the opening tag of the body is found, so the resulting parse contains all the head plus an empty body. There may be a way to stop at the </head> tag, but I haven't found it. As written, it depends on the input having both a head and a body. I have tried this in a playground, and it works as expected. The parse stops after the end of the head. I don't know how to check whether the reading stops at the same point; I suppose that depends on the method 'parseDocumentUntil' behaving sensibly. Hope this helps Peter Kenny From: Pharo-users [mailto:pharo-users-boun...@lists.pharo.org] On Behalf Of Jan Kurš Sent: 27 November 2016 18:47 To: Any question about pharo is welcome <pharo-users@lists.pharo.org> Subject: Re: [Pharo-users] ZnClient GET, but just the content of the <head> tag? Hi, PetitParser2 [1] supports parsing of streams. I have been experimenting with ZnClient and come up with the following solution: 1) Create a PP2 stream from ZnClient stream: byteStream := ZnClient new url: 'http://pharo.org'; streaming: true; get. stream := PP2CharacterStream on: byteStream encoder: ZnUTF8Encoder new. 2) Create a parser for header: head := '<head>' asPParser, #any asPParser starLazy, '</head>' asPParser. 3) Create a parser that reads everything up till header or body (in case header is not present) and parse the header: headStart := '<head' asPParser. bodyStart := '<body' asPParser. parser := (#any asPParser starLazy: (headStart / bodyStart)), head ==> #second. result := parser optimize parse: stream. 4) Finally, the contents of header is a collection of characters, I don't know what is the best way to convert it into a string, perhaps this: text := (result second inject: (WriteStream on: '') into: [ :stream :char | stream nextPut: char. stream ]) contents Cheers, Jan [1]: https://github.com/kursjan/petitparser2 On Sun, Nov 27, 2016 at 1:38 PM PBKResearch <pe...@pbkresearch.co.uk <mailto:pe...@pbkresearch.co.uk> > wrote: Paul Not sure if this is helpful - I have not tried it out, but it may give you a pointer. As Sven says, you need to parse a stream and be able to stop when you reach the desired point. If instead of Soup you use XMLHTMLParser, this has streaming siblings called SAXHTMLHandler and SAX2HTMLParser. I think it should be possible to use one or the other to stop when you reach the </head> tag. Personally I find the output of XMLHTMLParser easier to follow than that of Soup, but this may be a matter of taste. Hope this helps Peter Kenny -----Original Message----- From: Pharo-users [mailto:pharo-users-boun...@lists.pharo.org <mailto:pharo-users-boun...@lists.pharo.org> ] On Behalf Of Sven Van Caekenberghe Sent: 26 November 2016 18:19 To: Any question about pharo is welcome <pharo-users@lists.pharo.org <mailto:pharo-users@lists.pharo.org> > Subject: Re: [Pharo-users] ZnClient GET, but just the content of the <head> tag? Paul, > On 26 Nov 2016, at 18:31, PAUL DEBRUICKER <pdebr...@gmail.com > <mailto:pdebr...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > This is a micro optimization if there ever was one but I wondered if it was possible to stop downloading and get the entity once the </head> tag has been received. > > Right now I download the whole page, parse it with Soup, then extract the tags I want from the head. Which works fine. e.g. > > head:=((Soup fromString: (ZnEasy get: 'http://pharo.org') entity) > findChildTag: 'html') findChildTag: 'head'. This would only be useful for large pages. Dealing with the content of resources (like parsing HTML) is outside the scope of Zinc. However, I can help you get started. What you want to do is use streaming. That gives you access to the content of a resource using a direct stream, so you could decide to stop reading (but then you have to close the connection, else you need to read everything anyway). Start by having a look at ZnClient>>#downloadTo: and ZnStreamingEntity. What you want to do is more or less the following. ZnClient new url: 'http://pharo.org'; streaming: true; get. At this point, the request is done, the response is in, but the entity of the response is not yet read. When you ask for the entity, you get a ZnStreamingEntity which holds the stream that you then have to read from. You can check the response (and its header) for meta info. Your next challenge then is to process this stream so that you can parse it in a real streaming fashion. I don't know if Soup can do this. Sven
