Re: html to xml?

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Slith wrote:

> i need to parse an html page for tabular data which i can then import
> into mysql so i thought converting the html to xml might be a feasible
> thing to do, however, other than using tidy from the command line i
> can't find a way to do this from php.
> 
> does anyone know of any class (or other) that would allow me to do
> this? or maybe i just need a different approach.

Is this a one-off or will you be doing this often?

For a one-off I would just use sed/grep/awk/cut/tr etc. - HTML pages are
rarely syntactically correct, so trying to parse them or even turn them
into XML is tiresome at best. 


/Per Jessen, Zürich

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