first draft

Inital working version in version control

test.lua

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+local HtmlParser = require("HtmlParser")
+
+local io = require("io")
+local file = io.input("./test.html")
+local text = io.read("*a") file:close()
+
+local root = HtmlParser.parse(text)
+
+-- print the tree
+local function p(n)
+  local space = string.rep("  ", n.level)
+  local s = space .. n.name
+  for i,v in ipairs(n.nodes) do
+    s = s .. " nodes[" .. i .. "]=" .. v.name
+  end
+  for k,v in pairs(n.attributes) do
+    s = s .. " " .. k .. "=[" .. v .. "]"
+  end
+  print(s)
+  for i,v in ipairs(n.nodes) do
+    p(v)
+  end
+end
+p(root)
+
+local function select( s )
+  print ""
+  print("->", s)
+  local tags = root:select(s)
+  for i,t in ipairs(tags) do
+    print(t.name)
+  end
+  print(# tags)
+end
+select("*")
+select("link")
+select("#/contacts/4711")
+select(".chapters")
+select("[href]")
+select("span.firstname")
+select("ul[id]")
+
+select("#/contacts/4711")
+select("#/contacts/4711 *")
+select("#/contacts/4711 .lastname")
+select("body li[id]")
+
+select("ul")
+select("ul *")
+select("ul > *")
+select("body [class]")
+select("body > [class]")