From charlvn at charlvn.com  Fri Aug  7 04:41:23 2009
From: charlvn at charlvn.com (Charl van Niekerk)
Date: Fri Aug  7 04:41:28 2009
Subject: [uf-dev] PHP XPath Extractor
Message-ID: <3817f86f0908070441i4d20d340mfad326ae4b34d8c1@mail.gmail.com>

Hi All,

I wrote a small PHP class called Extractor (for lack of a better name)
recently which makes use of the PHP5 DOM extension to parse an HTML
document and then apply a collection of XPath expressions on that in a
hierarchical fashion:

http://code.google.com/p/hyperdata/source/browse/trunk/extractor/Extractor.php

The expressions and hierarchy is read from a simple XML configuration
file, for example:

http://code.google.com/p/hyperdata/source/browse/trunk/extractor/config.xml

A simple example of use would be:

http://code.google.com/p/hyperdata/source/browse/trunk/extractor/index.php

This is still very much pre-alpha but any feedback in the meantime
would be very welcome!

Thanks,
Charl