Re: [PHP-PEAR] libwww for PHP

Sterling Hughes wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Manuel Lemos wrote:
> 
Hello,

> > Hello,
> >
> > Mike wrote:
> > >
> > > I'm writing a PHP version of libwww, but before I go much further I want to make sure there isn't an existing version of the same thing. Anyone doing anything?
> >
> > I suggest that you just add a C extension to W3C libwww like there is
> > for Perl. One of the things that W3C does and PHP lacks badly is HTML
> > parsing. It is silly to try doing HTML parsing in pure PHP because it is
> > too much CPU consuming.
> >
> > libwww may be found here: http://www.w3.org/Library/
> >
> > Manuel Lemos
> >
> 
>         For HTML parsing, can't you just use Expat?

I'm afraid not. Most people do not write XML compliant HTML. For parsing
HTML it needs to be something in C like Expat to be as fast as possible.
W3 libwww comes with a nice HTML parser similar to Expat but for
arbitrary HTML.

Manuel Lemos