Comments on: Robust HTML parsing the Groovy way

By: Dennis

Dennis — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 12:42:57 +0000

Thanks for pointing to this. I know some other libraries aiming the same goal, e.g. TidyHTML, but I never heard of NekoHTML.
Looks like this one is the way to go if you would like to use a DOMParser, though I really like XMLSlurper’s syntax in Groovy.

Performance is not really an issue in my projects, so I wouldn’t really care which one is faster. More important is reliability. How close is the result to the real intention of the page.

By: Johann

Johann — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 19:36:27 +0000

I’ve been using NekoHTML lately. The syntax is a bit different though and I haven’t benchmarked yet if it’s faster or slower than XmlSlurper.

FYI, the syntax is a little like this in Groovy:

String get(def uri) { builder.request(uri, GET, TEXT, {}).text }

Document document(def uri) { DOMParser parser = new DOMParser() parser.parse(new InputSource(new StringReader(get(uri)))) parser.document }

(Builder is an HTTP Builder)