[erlang-questions] Rant: I hate parsing XML with Erlang

[YC]

Agreed - utilizing firefox or IE will further allow you to handle javascript
generated DOMs much more easily then having to write a javascript parser
yourself, which will enable handling of a much larger sets of pages.

But is this *easy* to do within Erlang?

On 10/23/07, Joe Armstrong <erlang@REDACTED> wrote:
>
> The point is (or was) that firefox has code to parse virtally any kind of
> broken
> warped incomprehensable html - letting firefox figure out the "meaning" of
> deeply crippled and totally incomprehensible html and then scanning the
> result
> (the generated DOM) seems a lot easier than figuring out how to parse
> crippled HTML yourself - using other stuff as components to do what they
> are
> good at doesn't seem that crazy to me.
>
> /Joe
>
>
>
> On 10/23/07, Joel Reymont <joelr1@REDACTED> wrote:
> >
> > On Oct 23, 2007, at 4:09 PM, Joe Armstrong wrote:
> >
> > > You could then use Erlang as a coordination language controlling
> > > a load of firefoxes on different machines, telling them to go get
> > > pages and
> > > scrape the pages for data which they send back to Erlang.
> >
> > This is nuts!!! /With all due respect to Joe/
> >
> > --
> > http://wagerlabs.com
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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