[OT] Reverse Template Engine?

[Dave Dutcher <dj...@earthlink.net>]

This isn't a question about Velocity, but I thought it would be easy to
explain my question to Velocity users.

I am looking to write a program to download html from a web site, and then I
want to parse data from the html.  Since the data is probably added to the
html with PHP, JSP, Velocity, or something.  I was thinking it would be cool
to have a tool that took a template a lot like a Velocity template but
parsed data out of a file instead of inserting data into it.  Kind of a
"Reverse Template Engine".

Has anybody heard of a tool like that, or does anybody have any suggestions
for a tool to use?  I guess just regular expressions might be the way to go.
Something like JavaCC is probably overkill for just looking for some data in
a table.

Thanks for any help,

Dave Dutcher


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Re: [OT] Reverse Template Engine?

[Jeff Linwood <je...@greenninja.com>]

Hi,

Have you taken a look at HttpUnit? It makes it pretty easy to retrieve 
content from a URL, and you can set HTTP Authentication, cookies, all 
that good stuff.  It can bring the results into a DOM with either JTidy 
or NekoHTML and then you could get stuff out of a table. It's easier to 
work with than regular expressions or JavaCC.

Jeff

Dave Dutcher wrote:

>This isn't a question about Velocity, but I thought it would be easy to
>explain my question to Velocity users.
>
>I am looking to write a program to download html from a web site, and then I
>want to parse data from the html.  Since the data is probably added to the
>html with PHP, JSP, Velocity, or something.  I was thinking it would be cool
>to have a tool that took a template a lot like a Velocity template but
>parsed data out of a file instead of inserting data into it.  Kind of a
>"Reverse Template Engine".
>
>Has anybody heard of a tool like that, or does anybody have any suggestions
>for a tool to use?  I guess just regular expressions might be the way to go.
>Something like JavaCC is probably overkill for just looking for some data in
>a table.
>
>Thanks for any help,
>
>Dave Dutcher
>
>
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