BorlandTalk.com Borland discussion newsgroups   Archives   FAQ   Search   Memberlist   Usergroups   Register   Profile   Log in to check your private messages   Log in  HTML Parser          BorlandTalk.com Forum Index -> Delphi Thirdparty Tools (General) View previous topic :: View next topic   Author Message adem Guest Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2005 3:41 am    Post subject: HTML Parser I am looking for a HTML parser that will turn a HTML page into proper objects i.e. tables that I can access by row and column, text that I can get font/charset information etc. I am not really interested in images/pictures; just the text stuff. And, it needs to be able to handle Unicode too. Does anyone know of such a component --freeware with source would of course be preferred as I would be willing to do my own code maintenance and contribute back, but --failing that-- commercial solutions are OK too. TVMIA Cheers, Adem Back to top Robert Baker Guest Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2005 6:42 am    Post subject: Re: HTML Parser Adem, I recently found "Extended IEParser V2" at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/delphi-webbrowser/files/. To get the rows and column data I needed, I had to write a few lines of code and the HTML was not in "objects", but you could certainly add that feature easily enough. BTW, the price [free] was right for my needs. For a modest fee DIHtmlParser [at http://www.zeitungsjunge.de/delphi/htmlparser/] looked like it might be more advanced. Its price seems reasonable but I got what I needed from the free one so I did not evaluate if thoroughly and cannot address its "object" nature. Best of luck, Robert Baker "adem" <adembaba (AT) excite (DOT) com> wrote Quote: I am looking for a HTML parser that will turn a HTML page into proper objects Back to top listmember Guest Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2005 12:30 pm    Post subject: Re: HTML Parser Robert Baker wrote: Hi Robert, Quote: I recently found "Extended IEParser V2" at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/delphi-webbrowser/files/. To get the rows and column data I needed, I had to write a few lines of code and the HTML was not in "objects", I did try to get that file but it seem it has been removed from there. I did join the group furst :-) Quote: but you could certainly add that feature easily enough. Can you or somebody else help me with this bit. It seems it is probbaly easier than I think; but I don't know how to do it. Quote: BTW, the price [free] was right for my needs. For a modest fee DIHtmlParser [at http://www.zeitungsjunge.de/delphi/htmlparser/] looked like it might be more advanced. Its price seems reasonable but I got what I needed from the free one so I did not evaluate if thoroughly and cannot address its "object" nature. I am aware of DIHtmlParser, but it only parses HTML pages. There are others that handle the parsing well enough for me. Quote: Best of luck, Thanks :-) Actually, what i am looking for is something like Ben Ziegler's components --anyone remember WABD? http://www.radix.net/~bziegler/Delphi/Index.html Now, kbmWABD http://www.components4programmers.com/products/kbmwabd/ but without the visual aspects. Cheers, Adem Back to top John McTaggart Guest Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2005 6:04 pm    Post subject: Re: HTML Parser Quote: I am looking for a HTML parser that will turn a HTML page into proper objects i.e. tables that I can access by row and column, text that I can get font/charset information etc. I wrote one called ATagParser that handles pretty much anything based on a tag format. It can easily handle table rows and columns, but is limited to ANSI and UTF-8. Actually, it can handle UTF-16LE and BE as well, but converts them back to their UTF-8 equivalent.. http://www.compnet101.com/atagparser The latest version is not online, but if you send me a message with the version of Delphi that you're using I'll send you the latest package.. BTW, I only go to D7. I know the source compiles under all versions including D8, 2005 and even BCB6, but I don't own any of them..sorry. John McTaggart Back to top listmember Guest Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2005 7:32 pm    Post subject: Re: HTML Parser John McTaggart wrote: John, Quote: http://www.compnet101.com/atagparser I took a look at your site. From the property editor screenshot, I can see that it is event-based. While this is very good for speed as a general tag-based document parser, it leaves me with the job of constructing and filling all the data for the object tree I need to have. What i am lookking for is one that turns all that information into objects. Cheers, Adem Back to top Robert Baker Guest Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2005 9:55 pm    Post subject: Re: HTML Parser Adem, RE: I did try to get that file but it seem it has been removed from there. - I did join the group first :-) Hum - no idea of why you had this problem - I tried again just now and the file downloaded perfectly. BTW, I had to muck around with a bit as it was not updated for D7. In any case, it sounds like you will not be happy with it as the parsing does not place the results into "objects". Please let me know if you find such a solution. Good luck, Robert Back to top John McTaggart Guest Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2005 11:20 pm    Post subject: Re: HTML Parser Quote: I took a look at your site. From the property editor screenshot, I can see that it is event-based. While this is very good for speed as a general tag-based document parser, it leaves me with the job of constructing and filling all the data for the object tree I need to have. What i am lookking for is one that turns all that information into objects. Understandable. I wrote it as the base that could be used to construct higher level objects like trees.. I use it to parse several RSS feeds into a tree and it's pretty simple. Each of the tags, text, data etc. is returned in its corresponding event as a persistent object with an index number. Having that, it's pretty simple.. Speed wise, it's way snappy.. John McTaggart Back to top Eddie Shipman Guest Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2005 1:51 pm    Post subject: Re: HTML Parser In article <xn0e54chl9zopsq01y (AT) forums (DOT) borland.com>, [email]adembaba (AT) excite (DOT) com[/email] says... Quote: I am looking for a HTML parser that will turn a HTML page into proper objects i.e. tables that I can access by row and column, text that I can get font/charset information etc. I am not really interested in images/pictures; just the text stuff. And, it needs to be able to handle Unicode too. Does anyone know of such a component --freeware with source would of course be preferred as I would be willing to do my own code maintenance and contribute back, but --failing that-- commercial solutions are OK too. Sounds like you are talking about the MSHTML DOM. All of this stuff you can get from the DOM just by examining the correct property. And it handles unicode if your browser version does. 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