html parser

[Gustavo G. Rondina]

Hi all

I am using libcurl to grab an html file from a remote http site. How
can I parse this file in order to produce a "formatted" output? Is
there any lib around that performs this action?

Thanks
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Gustavo G. Rondina

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[Cedric LEMAIRE]

Re: html parser

gustgr@brlivre. org (Gustavo G. Rondina) wrote in message news:<87y8k9bab 1.fsf@fingolfin .arda.org>...[color=blue]
> I am using libcurl to grab an html file from a remote http site. How
> can I parse this file in order to produce a "formatted" output? Is
> there any lib around that performs this action?[/color]

You can use CodeWorker, a universal parsing tool and a versatile
source code generator, freeware available at
"http://www.codeworker. org".

You describe how you want to parse the HTML page via an extended-BNF
script, which will extract only the data you are interested in. Then,
you save the resulting data in a file, writing a template-based script
for the code (text here) generation.

It is highly declarative, well-adapted to the data extraction from
HTML pages.

If you don't want to call the interpreter of CodeWorker as an external
tool, it is available as a C++ library too. But I don't know if it is
easy to link a C++ library to a C program.