[erlang-questions] web client library

[Bob Ippolito]

mochiweb isn't very large, and the html parser/generator module is
largely standalone. It depends on mochiweb_charref and it uses the
float encoder from mochinum if you give it a float to encode. Pulling
these things out would simply be a pain in the ass, Erlang does not
have good distribution tools yet. Our primary goal is to get work
done, and having a whole bunch of libraries to deal with (both as the
producers and consumers of these modules) is counter to that.

On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 10:03 AM, Kevin Scaldeferri
<kevin@REDACTED> wrote:
> Personally, I find it frustrating that general-purpose tools like this
>  seem to be buried inside large frameworks.  I think it would be quite
>  beneficial to the community, and to adoption, if these base utilities
>  were pulled out and distributed separately.
>
>
>  -kevin
>
>
>
>
>  On Mar 10, 2008, at 9:25 AM, Roberto Saccon wrote:
>
>  > mochiweb also has a decent HTML parser
>  >
>  > On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 12:42 PM, Christian S <chsu79@REDACTED>
>  > wrote:
>  >> On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 3:56 PM, Claes Wikstrom <klacke@REDACTED>
>  >> wrote:
>  >>>> The ruby-project "hpricot" sets the standard for how convenient
>  >>>> html-scraping should be (
>  >>> You'll find a decent HTML parser in the yaws code - yaws_html.erl
>  >>
>  >> Has it been improved since it was first contributed?
>  >>
>  >> Because back then when i tried it, it did not handle faulty/ambiguous
>  >> html that popular browsers handle without complaints.  The kind of
>  >> html that are all over web pages out there.
>  >>
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