Comment by mattrighetti

5 months ago

I will definitely try this out!

I have a service that extracts <meta> tags in webpages and to do that I'm currently using (and need) three different dependencies: html5ever, markup5ever_rcdom, markup5ever. I don't like those to be honest, the documentation is quite bad and it was difficult to understand how I should have used the libraries to achieve such a simple task.

XPath on the other hand makes this extremely easy in comparison, I wonder how this will perform compared to my current solution.

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mattrighetti

faassen 5 months ago

Thanks!

Unfortunately at this point there's no HTML parser frontend for Xee (and its underlying library Xot) yet (HTML 5 parser serialization is supported at least in code). It shouldn't be too hard to add at least HTML 5 support using something like html5ever.