XML-RPC client module for Node.js (uses libxml.js)(github.com)
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XML-RPC client module for Node.js (uses libxml.js)
http://github.com/caludio/node.xmlrpc-c
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I've been trying to model libxml.js after Nokogiri. I wanted to get something built and working first. The next step is to expose libxml2's html parser.
Someone else has started working on find-by-CSS a la Nokogiri. I'll merge that into libxml.js when it's ready.
BTW, I'm looking for more help on this project. A new job has diminished the amount of time I can spend on OSS projects.
Someone else has started working on find-by-CSS a la Nokogiri. I'll merge that into libxml.js when it's ready.
BTW, I'm looking for more help on this project. A new job has diminished the amount of time I can spend on OSS projects.
Hi, thanks for working on this.
I went ahead and wrote a very simple test for HTML parsing and added an parseHTML() binding. I've sent you a pull request.
You can check out the commit here:
http://github.com/Maciek416/libxmljs/commit/87f28186cd4d2f2f...
I went ahead and wrote a very simple test for HTML parsing and added an parseHTML() binding. I've sent you a pull request.
You can check out the commit here:
http://github.com/Maciek416/libxmljs/commit/87f28186cd4d2f2f...
As an alternative to libxml2 one could use tagsoup as a separate process and a JS only parser like XML for script.
libxml2 has an excellent tag soup parser (the Python lxml module makes heavy use of it) - but I don't think libxml.js exposes it yet.
Why use libxml when JavaScript already has a standard XML API, E4X (ECMAScript for XML), as specified by ECMA 357? At least libxml should use the faster native XML support behind the scenes if available.
Here's your answer:
http://code.google.com/p/v8/issues/detail?id=235
"There are currently no plans for implementing E4X in V8."
This doesn't seem to have moved forward, and the thread ends in a link to libxmljs :)
http://code.google.com/p/v8/issues/detail?id=235
"There are currently no plans for implementing E4X in V8."
This doesn't seem to have moved forward, and the thread ends in a link to libxmljs :)
Does anyone know if anyone is working on a "flexible" HTML/XHTML parser a la BeautifulSoup / Nokogiri / TagSoup, etc? Node could become very useful as a base for building scrapers if this existed.