Edward Elliott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> If you are parsing HTML, it may make more sense to use a package >> designed especially for that purpose, like Beautiful Soup. > > I don't know Beautiful Soup, but one advantage regexes have over some > parsers is handling malformed html. Omitted closing tags can wreak > havoc. Regexes can also help if you only want elements > preceded/followed by a certain sibling or cousin in the parse tree. > It all depends on what you're trying to accomplish. In general > though, yes parsers are better suited to extracting from markup.
A parser can be written in such a way that it doesn't give up on malformed HTML. Probably less hard then coming up with regexes that handle HTML that's well-formed. (and that coming from a Perl programmer ;-) ) -- John MexIT: http://johnbokma.com/mexit/ personal page: http://johnbokma.com/ Experienced programmer available: http://castleamber.com/ Happy Customers: http://castleamber.com/testimonials.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
