Trimming X/HTML files

[Thomas SMETS]

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The regular expression remove script out of an HTML/XHTML file is simple
enough but raises a major performance issue....

The following regular expression :
	r'(<script(\s*\S+\s*)+</script>)'
takes ages to complete in python on simple HTML file more than 3 minutes
of CPU time on a 150 lines HTML file. In jython it just never completes
but returns a painfull RunTimeException : maximum number of ??? reached.

Is the only way out dealing with strings and "match" instead of regular
expression ?
More over Jython is not yet 2.3 compliant, hence advanced features of
2.3 regular expression are not yet available !

\T,




Thomas SMETS wrote:
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| Dear,
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| I need to parse XHTML/HTML files in all ways :
| ~ _ Removing comments and javascripts is a first issue
| ~ _ Retrieving the list of fields to submit is my following item (todo)
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| Any idea where I could find this already made ... ?
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| \T,
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Thomas SMETS
Bruxelles
@ : duvelbier-tsmets at yahoo.com
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