Re: [syndication] ANN: xpath2rss 0.2

[Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>]

Now 0.3. 

The more I use XPATH (I'm pretty new to it), the easier I find it;
I've been using regex for years, but I'm quickly becoming more
capable, and more sure of the results, when I use XPATH.

Cheers,



On Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 12:47:51PM -0700, Mark Nottingham wrote:
> Just for fun...
> 
> http://www.mnot.net/xpath2rss/
> 
>  From the README:
> 
> xpath2rss is Yet Another HTML->RSS scraper. This one's different in that
> instead of using regular expressions, as most do, it uses XPATH.
> 
> Why XPATH?
> 
> The first reason to use XPATH is to learn it; XPATH is an important tool
> for XML. Currently, it's used in XSLT and not too many other places.
> 
> Secondly, XPATH is smarter than regex because XPATH is aware of XML's
> (and therefore HTML's) syntax; theoretically, this makes it a more
> natural fit for scraping HTML and XML, and should make it more reliable.
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> 
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