[REBOL] Re: looking for a function...
From: ingo:2b1 at: 12-Nov-2000 11:15
Hi Donald,
well, yes, thought that, too ... _after_ I sent it, and when
I dindn't have the time to send a followup ...
I originally wanted a stand-alone html-to-text engine, but
when I created the browser.r script I got a little distracted.
These are the two mainfunctions:
>> help html/read
Valid subpath "html/read" is function:
USAGE:
OBJ url /html /text /links
DESCRIPTION:
read url and return the page as ...
OBJ is a function value.
ARGUMENTS:
url -- (Type: url file)
REFINEMENTS:
/html -- html source
/text -- text
/links -- link-list
'Read will read a file/url, and return nothing,
because I now see that I don't really return the
assembled return-value ... it _should_ have been
a block containing the string values for
/html source
/text converted from html
/links found in the source
>> help html/to-text
Valid subpath "html/to-text" is function:
USAGE:
OBJ url html
DESCRIPTION:
Convert html to text, url is needed for handling of relative urls
OBJ is a function value.
ARGUMENTS:
url -- (Type: url file)
html -- (Type: string)
'to-text returns a block containing the converted text, and a block
of strings like "cnt http://www.2b1.de/" where cnt is a
reference number inserted in the text, where the link has
been.
(The 'url argument is really only needed to convert relative urls.)
I hope that helps
kind regards,
Ingo
Once upon a time Donald Dalley spoketh thus:
