Re: [PLUG] sed newbie question

[Eric <eric@lucii.org>]

Michael:

There was a recent thread somewhere - I don't recall where - that concluded
"Don't use regular expressions to parse html!"  REs are very powerful but html
can be quite complex and even irregular and REs are not the right tool to make a
parser.

While writing this I noticed that Sean suggested DOM manipulation with Python.
Excellent idea.  SED, BASH, etc. just don't have what you're going to need to
create a reliable, effective solution.

Good luck.

Eric

Michael Lazin wrote:
> Yeah, it's just a proof of concept, obviously this is gonna take some
> work.  Out of curiosity is there a way to insert with sed, so you could
> do something like inserting <!-- --> around the <iframe></iframe> tags? 
> This might be better than removing a whole line of code.
> 
>> On Dec 3, 2009 6:46 PM, "Douglas Muth" <doug.muth@gmail.com
>> <mailto:doug.muth@gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 6:30 PM, Michael Lazin <microlaser@gmail.com
>> <mailto:microlaser@gmail.com>> wrote: > Hi, I am interested in...
>>
>> No idea, but I can tell you how I would do it:
>>
>> cat test.html | sed -e s/iframe//g
>>
>> Keep in mind that with that specific regexp, you'll be left with
>> broken HTML code.  I assume that's a proof of concept, though. :-)
>>
>> Hope that helps,
>>
>> -- Doug
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