[PD] httpget: fun with tcpclient and pdstring

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Mar 4, 2009, at 9:18 AM, Martin Peach wrote:

> Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>> I made [httpget] for fetching webpages into pd:
>
>
> That's nice. Now we need some html parsing objects so the pages go  
> into the patch and not the pd window. It works well if the received  
> pages are loaded into a table. I made tabfind to search a table for  
> a string. Tables seem more efficient than lists and less volatile.


Any ideas on how to approach the HTML parsing?  It seems like using an  
xml-based parsing library would be the way to do that.  There is detox  
in jasch_lib, but I don't know the state of it.

.hc


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