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Hi there,<br>
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I am not entirely sure for the below which bits n pieces what to
include on the LRUG registration page...<br>
<br>
Could Alex / Rob send me the following?<br>
<ul>
<li>Talk Title:</li>
<li>Full name speaker:</li>
<li>Synopsis of talk:</li>
<li>Short bio / background speaker (two or three lines - only if
available)</li>
</ul>
wendy<br>
<br>
A. S. Bradbury wrote:
<blockquote cite="mid200608142009.59605.asbradbury@tekcentral.org"
type="cite">
<pre wrap="">On Monday 14 August 2006 16:25, Robert McKinnon wrote:>
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<pre wrap="">Alex, sounds like a great topic for an LRUG talk! Are you able to make
a Sept 4th meeting, 18:30-20:00? (Note: this may be moved to the
following week).
</pre>
</blockquote>
<pre wrap=""><!---->
Yes, I should be able to make either that or the next week, and hopefully many
more LRUG meetings in the future.
</pre>
<blockquote type="cite">
<blockquote type="cite">
<pre wrap="">I could certainly talk about the ideas behind my system,
compare and contrast with alternative approaches (Regexp,
RubyfulSoup and now Hpricot). Maybe there's interest in a
brief look at what tools and resources I've found useful,
being a relatively inexperienced ruby programming
embarking on what is for me a fairly substantial project.
Is there any interest in this, if so - what would you like to hear
about? I'm not familiar with the style of most presentations at
LRUG meetings.
</pre>
</blockquote>
<pre wrap="">We usually get around 30 people at a meeting - a mix of experienced to
newbies. We've been having two talks per meeting for the last few
months. You'll have a projector and the audience's attention for around
30-40 minutes - they'll want to head to the pub after that! ;)
</pre>
</blockquote>
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OK.
</pre>
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<pre wrap="">For a personal project I've been converting HTML to XML with TagSoup (a
Java tool), then using a series of custom REXML SAX parsers to
transform the data into a useful structure. The resulting structured
data is going into a database for a Rails app I'm building. I'd be
interested to see if Ariel would have saved me any time.
</pre>
</blockquote>
<pre wrap=""><!---->
It's not the answer to all problems, but I think it could well have helped you
out. I'm no zealot, it's just something else for the toolkit. Sometimes
you'll want to take the time to right a parser by hand. It's under heavy
development at the moment, but keep an eye out on ruby-talk for the next
release which should be where it starts to become very useful. Of course,
I'll be filling you in on the details on the 4th/whenever.
Alex
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