Hello Cedric

I���m using Soup from time to time. I use it also with student this semester to do a small app that get leboncoin adds programmatically to send alerts (leboncoin is a French web site to sell/buy stuff between people).

cool I want it because I'm looking for Games on leboncoin��

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I think it should be updated to reflect HTML5 important new tags. For instance I needed to add the section tag in the �� nestableBlockTags���� ��� It���s in SoupParserParameter initializeNestableBlockTags (see the screenshot - I don���t have my image here sot it���s just the method). Without this tag, I could properly get the classified ads).��

I can publish it if you want but I think there are more important HTML5 tags to include in this parameters class. As Soup is an "incomplete parser���� (as far as I understand), there is no need to include all html5 tags. But beside <section>, do other people think there are tags to include there ?

Please publish it.��

What you can do also is to write a chapter showing how you script leboncoin with Soup.��

You are welcome.��

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Cheers,��

C��drick

Le 27 sept. 2017 �� 09:25, Stephane Ducasse <stepharo.self@gmail.com> a ��crit :

I came with the idea of this booklet thank to Peter Kenny that kindly
answered a question on the Pharo mailing-list.
To help, Peter showed to a Pharoer how to scrap a web site
using XPath. In addition, some years ago
I was maintaining Soup a scraping framework because I was scraping
magic web sites and I wanted an application to manage my magic cards.
Since then I always wanted to try XPath and in addition I wanted to
offer this booklet to Peter. Why because I asked Peter
if he would like to write something and he told that he was at a great
age where he would not take any commitment.
I realised that I would like to get as old as him and be able to hack
like a mad in Pharo with new technology.
So this booklet is a gift to Peter, a great and gentle Pharoer.

Stef

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