HTML parsing methods

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For HTML parsing, you have the following possibilities:

  • QXML
  • QDOM
  • Perl
  • XHTML

Obviously, QXML and QDOM need XML-compliant HTML pages, and the least HTML pages are XML-compliant. Perl is not the scope of this site. This tutorial chooses the XHTML approach.

First step

As we remember from http://developernew.kde.org/Development/Tutorials/Programming_Tutorial_KDE_4/How_to_write_an_HTML_parser, biggest thing is to be able to parse non-XML-conform syntax. It works with the following program.

tags.cpp

 1#include <kapplication.h>
 2#include <kaboutdata.h>
 3#include <kcmdlineargs.h>
 4#include <dom/html_document.h>
 5
 6int main (int argc, char *argv[])
 7{
 8        KAboutData aboutData( "test", "test",
 9        "1.0", "test", KAboutData::License_GPL,
10        "(c) 2006" );
11        KCmdLineArgs::init( argc, argv, &aboutData );
12        KApplication khello;
13
14        DOM::HTMLDocument doc;
15        DOM::DOMString tag("*");
16        DOM::DOMString uri("<html><body><a href=\"http://www.kde.org/\"></a><a href=\"/index.php\" nowrap>Log in</a><a href=\"http://www.gmx.de\"></a></body></html>");
17
18        doc.loadXML(uri);
19        kdDebug() << "Does this doc have child elements ? " << doc.hasChildNodes() << endl;
20        for (int i=0; i<doc.getElementsByTagName(tag).length(); i++) kdDebug() << doc.getElementsByTagName(tag).item(i).nodeName().string() << endl;
21        kdDebug() << "Size of your doc " << sizeof(doc.firstChild()) << endl;
22        kdDebug() << doc.isHTMLDocument() << endl;
23        kdDebug() << doc.toString().string() << endl;
24}


Compile it like this:

gcc -I/usr/lib/qt3/include -I/opt/kde3/include \
-L/opt/kde3/lib -lkdeui -lkhtml -o tags tags.cpp

Second

#include <kapplication.h>
#include <kaboutdata.h>
#include <kcmdlineargs.h>
#include <dom/html_document.h>
#include <dom/html_element.h>
#include <dom/dom_node.h>

int main (int argc, char *argv[])
{
        KAboutData aboutData( "test", "test",
        "1.0", "test", KAboutData::License_GPL,
        "(c) 2006" );
        KCmdLineArgs::init( argc, argv, &aboutData );
        KApplication khello;

        DOM::HTMLDocument doc;
        DOM::DOMString tag("*");
        DOM::DOMString uri("<html><body><a href=\"http://www.kde.org/\"><b>fat</b></a><a href=\"/index.php\" nowrap>Log in</a><a href=\"http://www.gmx.de\"></a></body></html>");

        doc.loadXML(uri);
        kdDebug() << "Here's a list of the document elements" << endl;
        for (int i=0; i<doc.getElementsByTagName(tag).length(); i++) kdDebug() << doc.getElementsByTagName(tag).item(i).nodeName().string() << endl;
       
        DOM::HTMLDocument doc2;
        DOM::DOMString uri2("<html><body>this is html<b>fat</b></body></html>");
        doc2.loadXML(uri2);
        kdDebug() << "This is the in-memory html:" << endl;
        kdDebug() << doc.toString().string() << endl;
        doc.body().insertBefore(doc.body().firstChild().firstChild(),doc.body().firstChild());
        kdDebug() << "Moving around nodes" << endl;
        kdDebug() << doc.toString().string() << endl;
}