htmltools

Version: 1.06 12. September, 2003

This is a Ruby library for building trees representing HTML structure.

See the file INSTALL for installation instructions.

Copyright (C) 2003, Johannes Brodwall [e-mail] Copyright (C) 2002, Ned Konz [e-mail]

License: Ruby's

See http://rubyforge.org/projects/ruby-htmltools for the most recent version.

This project includes SGML-parser, ported from Python by Takahiro Maebashi [e-mail] (see: http://www.jin.gr.jp/~nahi/Ruby/html-parser/README.html)

============= PREREQUISITES

Ruby 1.8

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Test::Unit

The tests run using Test::Unit. Test::Unit is part of the standard Ruby install as of 1.8

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REXML

XPath support requires REXML. REXML is part of the standard Ruby install as of 1.8

=========== CHANGES

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Changes from 1.09:

• Some minor bugfixes
• SGMLParser.src_range makes it very easy to write applications which parse HTML files into components and manipulate the corresponding source code without altering it. (by Philip Dorrell)

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Changes from 1.08:

• Fixed xpath script and added tests
• Fixed bug #681 (xhtml)
• Added GemSpec

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Changes from 1.07:

• Fixed tc_xpath test_match_all after it was broken by upgrade of REXML.
• Refactored utility code for printing node paths into rexml-nodepath.rb

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Changes from 1.06:

• Included stuff that I had forgot to package into the tarball.

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Changes from 1.05:

• Updated everything to work with Ruby 1.8.

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Changes from 1.04:

• Made sure that unknown entities and characters are not discarded, in both html/tree.rb and html/xmltree.rb

• Added handling of DOCTYPE to html/xmltree.rb

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Changes from 1.03:

• Added HTMLTree::XMLParser, which makes a REXML document from the given HTML.

• Changed HTMLTree::Element::print_on() to write()

• Made it so that a string or IO can be passed to HTMLTree::Element::dump()

• Made it so that a string or IO can be passed to HTMLTree::Element::write()

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Changes from 1.02:

• added XPath and XML conversion (needs REXML)

• Wrapped all code in namespaces. The following class names have changed:

  -- in html/element.rb HTMLDocument => HTMLTree::Document HTMLElement => HTMLTree::Element HTMLData => HTMLTree::Data HTMLComment => HTMLTree::Comment HTMLSpecial => HTMLTree::Special

  -- in html/tags.rb HTMLTag => HTML::Tag HTMLBlockTag => HTML::BlockTag HTMLInlineTag => HTML::InlineTag HTMLBlockOrInlineTag => HTML::BlockOrInlineTag HTMLEmptyTag => HTML::EmptyTag

  -- in html/tree.rb HTMLTreeParser => HTMLTree::Parser

  -- in html/stparser.rb StackingParser => HTML::StackingParser

• added HTMLTree::Element.root()

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Changes from 1.01:

• documented change to sgml-parser.

• added bin/ebaySearch.rb example

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Changes from 1.0:

• attributes now maintain their order. Though this probably isn't strictly necessary under HTML, it may make it easier to compare document versions.

• the generated tree now has a top-level node for the document itself, so the DTD can be stored. THIS WILL REQUIRE CODE CHANGES if you have code that assumes that the root node is always . To find the

  node, you can use the new methods HTMLTreeParser#html() or HTMLDocument#html_node():

  html = parser.html()

  Or, querying the tree:

  html = parser.tree.html_node()

• comments are stored in the tree

• added HTMLElement#print_on() to print a (sub)tree to an IO stream

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