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 8:11:45 PM More scraping thoughts ...
- Generic scraper should work with web pages and email (HTML and text)
- Output should be in some kind of RSS feed format
- Should be able to run from Radio Userland, but should not require Radio (prefer generic data->XML tool)
- It's better to use RegEx instead of XSLT because:
- many source pages use poorly formed HTML, so an automatic conversion to XHTML may make things worse
- some sources are plain text
- Patterns should be nestable and/or sequential (and/or)
- It should be easy to make multiple passes to extract information from different parts of a document
- Matched text to be included or excluded from extracted info
- Options to strip styles, tags (or maybe specify tags to retain)
- Syntax could follow XSLT ...
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