It may be a quirk of how Pharo Playground works. It doesn't need local variable declarations - which is convenient - but putting them in can screw things up. Try your snippet again without the first line. Compare Torsten's code.
HTH Peter Kenny -----Original Message----- From: Pharo-users <pharo-users-boun...@lists.pharo.org> On Behalf Of Torsten Bergmann Sent: 07 January 2020 07:47 To: pharo-users@lists.pharo.org Cc: pharo-users@lists.pharo.org Subject: Re: [Pharo-users] [ANN] XMLParserHTML moved to GitHub Works without a problem (Pharo 8 on Windows), see attached. So it looks like a local problem. Just check the debugger and compare to the squeak version where you run in trouble. Maybe the document could not be retrieved on your machine. Bye T. > Gesendet: Dienstag, 07. Januar 2020 um 04:42 Uhr > Von: "LawsonEnglish" <lengli...@cox.net> > An: pharo-users@lists.pharo.org > Betreff: Re: [Pharo-users] [ANN] XMLParserHTML moved to GitHub > > Torsten Bergmann wrote > > Hi, > > > > > > You can load using > > > > Metacello new > > baseline: 'XMLParserHTML'; > > repository: 'github://pharo-contributions/XML-XMLParserHTML/src'; > > load. > > > > > > Bye > > T. > > Hi, > > I'm trying to use the sample code in the pharo screen scraping booklet > — > http://books.pharo.org/booklet-Scraping/pdf/2018-09-02-scrapingbook.pdf — but > while everything appears to load, I'm getting an odd behavior from: > > /| ingredientsXML | > ingredientsXML := XMLHTMLParser parseURL: > 'https://ndb.nal.usda.gov/ndb/search/list?sort=ndb&ds=Standard+Reference'. > ingredientsXML inspect/ > > "#new was sent to nil" > > No matter what URL I use, I get the same message. > > I'm using Mac OS Catalina so I thought I might have some strange Mac > OS security issue (like it was quietly refusing to allow Pharo to > access the internet), but I tested with squeak and the old > > /html :=(HtmlParser parse: > 'https://ndb.nal.usda.gov/ndb/search/list?sort=ndb&ds=Standard+Reference' > asUrl retrieveContents content)/ > > and that returns actual html without any problems. > > > Suggestions? > > > Thanks. > > L > > > > > -- > Sent from: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Users-f1310670.html > >
