On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 10:45 PM, PBKResearch <pe...@pbkresearch.co.uk> wrote:
> Siemen > > Stef should have added that XPath depends on using Monty's XMLParser > suite. I tried your snippet on XMLDOMParser, and it parses correctly. I > always use XMLHTMLParser for parsing HTML, because I can always see the > exact relationship between the parsed structure and the original HTML. With > Soup I often found the match difficult or even impossible. > Thanks Stef & Peter. I'm going with XMLHTMLParser, it is indeed nicer to work with in the inspector. I'm scraping my own html files (to create a mock DOM object of my HTML to work with in Pharo) so I think I will switch to xhtml too to reduce the complexity. Nice chapter, I only saw it briefly before and didn't realize that XMLHTMLParser is a newer replacement for Soup. -- Siemen
