Anyone know of a tasteful LGPL HTML parser in C?
Daniel Veillard
veillard at redhat.com
Wed Nov 24 18:22:49 UTC 2004
On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 12:33:58PM -0500, Jeff Johnson wrote:
> I'd like to attempt to support
> rpm -qp http://download.fedora.redhat.com/.../*.rpm
> within rpm by applying fnmatch(3) against parsed HTML hrefs.
>
> So I'm questing existing HTML parser imp[ementations before hacking up
> something myself.
libxml2 HTML parser
> The constraints on my rpm problem/implementation space are:
> a) must be LGPL
MIT
> b) must be in C.
yes
> c) must be reasonably small and reliable.
if you link against the shared lib and use demand paging it's not too
big, otherwise it won't fit
> d) should work on a significant variety of HTML dialects without problem.
people have been using it to build commercial grade Web indexing software
Daniel
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