So, for a little top-secret project I’m helping out with, I had a need to pull some data from a <select> list while scraping an HTML page. The original source code was a PHP script using preg_match() and preg_match_all(), but I didn’t want to pull in any regex engine larger than RegexKitLite, which doesn’t provide a high-level method doing what preg_match_all() does. My solution was to leave regexes behind and tweak the AQXMLParser to optionally use the libxml HTML parsing routines.
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