Regex for HTML/XHTML

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Regex for HTML/XHTML

fresco1108 opened this issue 10 years ago · comments

adding support for identifying tags and their attributes as well as replacement of attribute values making it more awesome. I am half way down there need some testing.

Madison May · Answer 1 · Wed Jan 22 2014 13:48:51 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I've thought about adding support HTML/XHTML in the past, but I think that's best left to full featured web page parsing libraries like BeautifulSoup: http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/

fresco1108 · Answer 2 · Wed Jan 22 2014 13:56:26 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

you know i thought about that just a moment ago :)

Madison May · Answer 3 · Wed Jan 22 2014 14:05:56 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Yup -- simple regular expressions can't compete with that kind of library.

Talysson de Oliveira Cassiano · Answer 4 · Wed Jan 22 2014 17:22:02 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I've been thinking about putting XML tags support on the JavaScript port, but I wonder if it would be really useful just to get all the tags and/or properties of a code...

Emmanuel Thompson · Answer 5 · Thu Jan 23 2014 00:59:25 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

@talyssonoc Jquery has excellent support for this already

Madison May · Answer 6 · Thu Jan 23 2014 01:08:15 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

@eet6646 @eet6646 @talyssonoc Yeah, I'm of the opinion that xml/html/xhtml support is outside the scope of this project. It's largely a solved problem, there's a wealth of libraries that do exactly that, and I doubt a rather sketchy regular expression based solution would be of much benefit to anyone, even if it does sound enticing at first glance. I could be persuaded otherwise, but for the time being this feature request is going on the back burner.