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Re: Data retrieving from html text on a webpage

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Ben Bacarisse wrote:

> Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> writes:
>> Christoph Michael Becker wrote:
>>> Indeed, using XSLT might be a good idea, but this *can* also be used
>>> from an ECMAScript implementation.
>>
>> True.  However, it appears to me that it is still proprietary. [0]
> 
> As it happens, I was replying to the "better alternatives to javascript"
> part.  I wasn't suggesting a specific JS library.  The tool I'd found
> useful was the xsltproc command, built with libxslt which seems to be
> part of GNOME.

There is no “JS library” involved in using XSLT with (Mozilla|V8) JavaScript 
and Apple JavaScriptCore at least.  It is a built-in feature of the Gecko 
DOM and WebCore.  Follow the reference.
 
>> The explanation for the abbreviation is correct, which is why XSLT is
>> probably *not* a good approach here.  XSLT can be used to *transform*
>> *XML*-based markup to other markup or plain text. [1]  The original
>> markup here is neither [2].  It would have to be cleaned-up and converted
>> to XHTML in order to apply XSLT to it.
> 
> I used xsltproc on some pretty dreadful HTML texts.  The command has a
> flag to signal that the input is HTML, but I have no idea what it really
> does.

Obvious.  In order to process HTML, it must include an HTML parser which a 
true XSLT processor does not.  See above.

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Data retrieving from html text on a webpage FAISAL ISMAIL <faesal19@gmail.com> - 2014-05-18 01:18 -0700
  Re: Data retrieving from html text on a webpage Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2014-05-18 15:41 +0000
  Re: Data retrieving from html text on a webpage "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2014-05-18 17:41 +0200
    Re: Data retrieving from html text on a webpage FAISAL ISMAIL <faesal19@gmail.com> - 2014-05-18 12:52 -0700
  Re: Data retrieving from html text on a webpage Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-05-18 23:29 +0200
    Re: Data retrieving from html text on a webpage John Harris <niam@jghnorth.org.uk.invalid> - 2014-05-19 11:04 +0100
      Re: Data retrieving from html text on a webpage Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-05-19 13:11 +0200
        Re: Data retrieving from html text on a webpage John Harris <niam@jghnorth.org.uk.invalid> - 2014-05-20 10:43 +0100
          Re: Data retrieving from html text on a webpage Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-05-21 14:34 +0200
            Re: Data retrieving from html text on a webpage John Harris <niam@jghnorth.org.uk.invalid> - 2014-05-22 10:42 +0100
    Re: Data retrieving from html text on a webpage FAISAL ISMAIL <faesal19@gmail.com> - 2014-05-22 09:07 -0700
  Re: Data retrieving from html text on a webpage Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2014-05-19 21:44 +0000
    Re: Data retrieving from html text on a webpage Christoph Michael Becker <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2014-05-19 23:55 +0200
      Re: Data retrieving from html text on a webpage "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2014-05-20 00:04 +0200
        Re: Data retrieving from html text on a webpage Christoph Michael Becker <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2014-05-20 12:59 +0200
          Re: Data retrieving from html text on a webpage "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2014-05-20 17:13 +0200
      Re: Data retrieving from html text on a webpage Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2014-05-20 00:40 +0100
        Re: Data retrieving from html text on a webpage Christoph Michael Becker <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2014-05-20 13:17 +0200
          Re: Data retrieving from html text on a webpage Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-05-21 14:19 +0200
            Re: Data retrieving from html text on a webpage Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2014-05-21 13:51 +0100
              Re: Data retrieving from html text on a webpage Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-05-21 17:55 +0200
      Re: Data retrieving from html text on a webpage Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2014-05-20 10:05 +0000
        Re: Data retrieving from html text on a webpage Christoph Michael Becker <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2014-05-20 13:03 +0200

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