Off-Topic: Parse an html file and transfer the text found

[Derek Broughton]

Leo Cacciari wrote:

> Il giorno mer, 06/08/2008 alle 10.23 -0500, Bill Walton ha scritto:
>> 
>> John Toliver wrote:
>> 
>> > So my question to start is which language should I use to pull the
>> > data out of an html file?  Is perl better for this application, or is
>> > python better or some other language?
>> 
>> My personal preference is Ruby, but any language with an XML parser would
>> do.  It's just that Ruby makes it enjoyable ;-)
>> 
> Both the pyton-lover ;) and myself are gone out of our way trying to
> avoid religious wars about scripting language (which are almost as bad
> than the ones about emacs/vi, and useful as a sore finger when you have
> something to type....) please, do the same :-)

The only person making a war out of this is you.  He _did_ say any language
with an XML parser would work.

Personally, I'm conflicted about the very thought of learning Ruby.  If it's
as good as everybody who loves it claims, I'll have to switch preferences
again...
-- 
derek