Converting HTML to Jade?

[Bob Sneidar]

This kind of interests me. I've been thinking for some time how to go about getting the contents of a web page into Livecode in such a way so as to discern the values of web controls like popup buttons and such. The idea would be to take a page of copier settings and with a click record what all those settings were. 

I guess I can play around with a browser object, but I'm pretty sure I will not be able to get the specific objects from a web page. I might be able to parse the actual html, but that would not give me values, only objects. 

Bob S


> On Nov 12, 2015, at 08:01 , Richard Gaskin <ambassador at fourthworld.com> wrote:
> 
> Terry Vogelaar wrote:
> 
> > Does anyone know if there is an easy way to convert HTML to Jade from
> > within a LiveCode script?
> >
> > I want to distill information from a website for personal use. But
> > HTML tags sometimes do and sometimes don’t have an end tag, and if
> > they do, they don’t have to be nested properly. So it can be very
> > tedious to get to the right content. Since this is much easier to
> > use Jade, I often find myself copying the HTML to the left field on
> > http://html2jade.aaron-powell.com <http://http//html2jade.aaron-powell.com> and manually convert it to Jade to copy the result back to
> > my LiveCode stack.
> >
> > I suspect there is a better, more automated solution I am not aware
> > of.
> 
> If this is for content scraping there are likely easier ways than translating HTML to Jade only to translate Jade into something usable in LiveCode.
> 
> For example, for many uses HTML content can strip tags as simply as:
> 
>   set the htmlText of the template field to tSomeHtml
>   put the text of the templateField into tSomeText
> 
> 
> Can you tell us more about the goal you're looking to achieve?
> 
> -- 
> Richard Gaskin
> Fourth World Systems
> Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
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