Well.. I want to parser that can search on tag name, attribute, or value.
....
<div id="rating">

</div>
....
i.e. divcontent = soup.findAll("div", { "id" : "rating" })
Then search again from the results

Is there a html parser in PHP that does this?

Thanks
Jamie

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jamie_lynn

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Thanks hernst. Can this handle messy html that everyone write on the web? I was thinking about using dom parsers but I was reading that dom parsers does not do well with poor html.
i.e. No end tag, unquoted values, etc

Thanks
Jamie

hernst42

If you have poor html, you could 1st use tidy to make it better html and then use it in dom. If the html is so poor that tidy fails, the user should fix it. No parser can do such things.

b0lsc0tt

I'm glad I could help. Thanks for the fun question, grade and points.

bol