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Re: wikipedia parser...

From	Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject	Re: wikipedia parser...
Date	2011-09-07 21:31 -0700
Organization	Canadian Mind Products
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On Tue, 06 Sep 2011 18:03:29 -0400, boris
<boris@localhost.localdomain> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted
someone who said :

>hi all,
>can anyone recommend working!  wikipedia parser (to text or html). I've 
>tried to get wikitext working, but it looks like it has some problems..
>thanks.

have a look at http://mindprod.com/applet/americantax.html
There are screenscrapers for each state to extract sales tax
information.  You can use one as a starting point for what you need.
-- 
Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products
http://mindprod.com
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, 
the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith (born: 1908-10-15 died: 2006-04-29 at age: 97)

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wikipedia parser... boris <boris@localhost.localdomain> - 2011-09-06 18:03 -0400
  Re: wikipedia parser... Travers Naran <tnaran@gmail.com> - 2011-09-06 21:11 -0700
  Re: wikipedia parser... Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-09-07 21:29 -0700
    Re: wikipedia parser... Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-09-08 19:57 -0400
  Re: wikipedia parser... Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-09-07 21:31 -0700
    Re: wikipedia parser... Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-09-08 19:58 -0400

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