Re: Unstringing HTML pages using PL/SQl

Hi Billy

Would I be able to save the html page as an XMl doc.

Regards
Avinth

vslabs_at_onwe.co.za (Billy Verreynne) wrote in message news:<1a75df45.0308242226.637bef13_at_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?
Received on Mon Aug 25 2003 - 04:31:13 CDT