querypath

I am proposing to update the QueryPath module to D7. I will also, by extension, update the database extension in QueryPath to use the new database API, add new features to QueryPath to bring it up to date with jQuery 1.4, and update the QueryPath example modules. All of the above changes will continue the awesomeness of the QueryPath module. I have been talking to Matt Butcher and have his full support on this proposal.

Any suggestions would be appreciated!

I've just spent a couple of hours learning the FeedAPI Parser, erm, API. Pretty straight forward. The reason was to test out an idea of using the nifty QueryPath library to parse the RSS feed markup and keep it easy to understand in the PHP code.

The module is based on the SimpleXML parser code, with most of it either ripped out or commented out.

I'm not really sure where i'm going with this - and i've done no benchmarks to see if it really is faster than any of the existing libraries like Simplepie. It might be a waste of time!

If you're still scraping content from other sites using a mixture of regular expressions and string searches in a HTTP page load then you should check out the QueryPath library!

With a bit of fiddling I've managed to scrape forum posts and extract usernames, dates and content in a small amount of lines without any complex regex.