I deleted the playground and entered the text thusly ingredientsXML := XMLHTMLParser parseURL: 'https://ndb.nal.usda.gov/ndb/search/list?sort=ndb&ds=Standard+Reference’.
“do it” has no complaints ingredientsXML = nil yields “false" ingredientsXML inspect has errors: #new sent to nil . This makes no sense at all. L > On Jan 7, 2020, at 1:55 AM, PBKResearch <pe...@pbkresearch.co.uk> wrote: > > 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 >> >> > >
