Re: HTML parsing, Safari, styles, etc [was Re; Keynote, is it scriptable (XML?) -addendum]
Re: HTML parsing, Safari, styles, etc [was Re; Keynote, is it scriptable (XML?) -addendum]
- Subject: Re: HTML parsing, Safari, styles, etc [was Re; Keynote, is it scriptable (XML?) -addendum]
- From: has <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 14:07:52 +0000
Jean-Baptiste LE STANG wrote:
If you look the dictionary of 'Safari' you'll find a property (I
don't remember its name) that returns an HTML page without all the
'<>' stuff. It might help you.
tell app "Safari" to get text of document 1
Very useful for folks who just want to strip out tags while getting
proper white spacing (as defined by <p>, etc. tags) and decoded
character entities. Not an infrequent request, as I recall.
You can't do much else with it though. For example, you can't use it
to extract tag attributes, clean up invalid markup, or dump
everything into a nice AS-based object model. You need fairly direct
access to an [XML/HTML] parser for that sort of stuff.
--
BTW, is it just me, or do Safari, TextEdit, etc. lose style
information when you get the text of a document? I never paid much
attention to styled text before, but was wanting to get text from
Safari into TextEdit with styles intact. The original document's text
may be styled-n-coloured pretty as a rainbow, but all this evaporates
as soon as you try to do anything with it:
tell application "Safari" to get text of document 1
tell application "TextEdit" to set text of document 1 to result
--> text appears, but styling is gone
Aside:
Using an 'as record' naughty to peek inside the styled text, the ksty
property always looks the same, no matter what the document's styles
are:
tell application "TextEdit" to get text of document 1 as record
--> {<<class ktxt>>:"blah blah", <<class ksty>>:<<data
styl0001000000000010000E00030000000C000000000000>>}
I think styled text has always been a bit cranky in AS, but this
doesn't seem right to me. Bug? Feature? Or have I stupidly missed
something as usual?
--
Ta,
has
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