RE: [PHP] html to xml?

> Slith wrote: > > > i need to parse an html page for tabular data which i can then import > > into mysql so i thought converting the html to xml might be a feasible > > thing to do, however, other than using tidy from the command line i > > can't find a way to do this from php. > > > > does anyone know of any class (or other) that would allow me to do > > this? or maybe i just need a different approach. > > Is this a one-off or will you be doing this often? > > For a one-off I would just use sed/grep/awk/cut/tr etc. - HTML pages are > rarely syntactically correct, so trying to parse them or even turn them > into XML is tiresome at best. For one-off, I'd simply copy/paste the data from the browser into Excel/OO Calc and save as CSV. Edward