Steve,

A colleague and I created the beginnings (a working
version) of a Ruby port of XMLC
(http://xmlc.enhydra.org), which parses XML/HTML into
a DOM with additional helper methods (sounds like what
you're after).  You can check the code out of CVS at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/rubyx/ (no file
release of it available yet).  

Also, a fellow by the name of MoonWolf seems to have
done something similar, but I'm not sure where to find
it at the moment.

Chad


--- Steve Price <sprice / hiwaay.net> wrote:
> Just curious if someone already developed something
> that creates
> an object given HTML text as input before I go off
> reinventing the
> wheel.  I've found a Ruby extension called
> html-parser.
> 
>    
>
http://www.jin.gr.jp/~nahi/Ruby/html-parser/README.html
> 
> However all this provides is the ability to parse
> HTML and doesn't
> turn it into an object that one can manipulate.  I'm
> also aware of
> the Net::HTTP and CGI classes and while CGI let's
> one create HTML
> output it doesn't seem to have provisions to do the
> reverse.
> 
> Suggestions?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> -steve


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