How to structure HTML text (tags and attributes) for processing in LiveCode?

Sun Jun 12 09:18:27 EDT 2011

I forgot to mention the old frames style if you are looking into  
archives on old sites,
and <IFRAME> on newer sites, easy to detect, but now you have a second  
<head> </head> <body> </body>.

On Jun 12, 2011, at 4:14 AM, Keith Clarke wrote:

> I've got the HTML source into a reasonable shape for processing with  
> line and item chunk expressions by using:
>
> put field "fld Page Source Code" into tHTML
> replace "/div>" with "/div>" & return in tHTML
> replace "/tr>" with "/tr>" & return in tHTML
> replace "/td>" with "/td>" & tab in tHTML
> filter tHTML with <strings that isolate only the interesting, data- 
> laden table rows>
>
> So, I can now have line-level chunk expressions mapped to divs and  
> table row tags, together with item-level expressions for iterating  
> through the tags and their attributes within table rows. Nice!
>
> Now the rich seams have been revealed, it's time to start digging  
> out them there nuggets! :-)

Jim Ault
Las Vegas