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I need to parse (server side) big amounts of HTML pages.
We all agree that regexp is not the way to go here.
It seems to me that javascript is the native way of parsing a HTML page, but that assumption relies on the server side code having all the DOM ability javascript has inside a browser.
Does Node.js have that ability built in?
Is there a better approach to this problem, parsing HTML on the server side?
You can use the npm modules jsdom and htmlparser to create and parse a DOM in Node.JS.
Other options include:
Out of all these options, I prefer using the Node.js option, because it uses the standard W3C DOM accessor methods and I can reuse code on both the client and server. I wish BeautifulSoup’s methods were more similar to the W3C dom, and I think converting your HTML to XHTML to write XSLT is just plain sadistic.