[R] Parsing of HTML files in R

[Douglas Bates]

Duncan Temple Lang <duncan at research.bell-labs.com> writes:

> If my memory serves me correctly, I believe that Dan Veillard's libxml
> library provides an adaptation of the XML parser that handles HTML. In
> that case, I can add something to the XML package that allows us to
> access the HTML parser and use the same interface for both XML and
> HTML from within R. I'll take a look and see if this is relatively
> easy to do.

Alternatively, try to transform your HTML to XHTML which can be parsed
as XML.  See the documentation on the "tidy" utility at

                http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett/tidy/
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