Parsing ASP?

logistix logistix at cathoderaymission.net
Fri May 2 11:24:43 EDT 2003


On Fri, 2 May 2003, Ben Allfree wrote:

> Does anyone know of a good way to parse ASP pages?
> 
> <%(.*?)%> will not work for large pages (stack overflow), and anyway, it
> doesn't take into account that ASP like this is legal:
> 
> <% response.write("This %> will fool <% most any %> parser") %>
> 
> 
Re's can't process any HTML/XML/SGML type variants.

You basically need to break things down into tokens  and process based on 
that.  Most people use a callback approach from there or build a 
tree.

the HTMLparser module shows you how to use the callback  approach with 
straight HTML (but no 
asp).






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