Comments on: Matching Innermost HTML Elements

By: Sean

Sean — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 00:39:00 +0000

Just had the local Barnes & Noble order it for me.

By: Sanjay

Sanjay — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:49:25 +0000

Your post suggest to trace the table elements. My problem is that I want all the data from the HTML page except for the data in between table start and table end.

Can you please guide me on that?

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Wed, 06 May 2009 01:59:15 +0000

I’m fairly new to RegEx and this post was a huge help. Thanks!

By: Gaurav

Gaurav — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 06:13:43 +0000

Hi Steven,

First, thanks for this wonderful post.
I’m new to regular expressions. Above you mentioned regular expression to get outermost table elements “]*>(?>(?:[^<]++|]*>))+|(?R))*”. I tried to convert this to make it work for javascript, but couldn’t able to do it.
Can you please help me out.

I have 1 more issue. Can we get all the table elements in an array 1 by 1, starting from outer most to innermost.. for example

tableArray[0] = ” .. …. …. … .. “;
tableArray[1] = ” …. …. … “;
tableArray[2] = “….”;

It can be done in javascript using regular expression and recursion ?

Thanks

By: SamGoody

SamGoody — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 12:15:58 +0000

@yoda.pt:
I don’t have a one liner regex like those Steve throws around. But if you just want to get the job done:
I wrote a PHP class that allows you to get or set the content of any element(s) using CSS selectors [plus some other features].
Its small, quick, and pretty powerful, and does not the use built in the PCRE recursion. [Intentionally - this is quicker and handles invalid HTML.]

If you [or anyone else] are interested, email me at siteroller at gmail.