Re: Unstringing HTML pages using PL/SQl

From: Billy Verreynne <vslabs_at_onwe.co.za>
Date: 24 Aug 2003 23:26:45 -0700
Message-ID: <1a75df45.0308242226.637bef13@posting.google.com>

avinthr_at_yahoo.co.uk (avin) wrote

> I need some serious help unstringing HTML pages using PL/SQL. Any
> suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

Never mind serious help. You will need some very serious coding in order to do that.

What are you trying to achieve? Building an intelligent data tree structure from HTML data would be fairly difficult in PL/SQL. If you are scanning for something specific, e.g. all anchor tags, than that would be much easier.

There is one basic principle in parsing an HTML page. Recursion. But even that becomes quite complex when having to deal with "illegal" HTML code.

Why not use XML instead?

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Billy

Received on Mon Aug 25 2003 - 01:26:45 CDT