mini-html-parser

Mini html parser for webworkers / node. Parses and builds a simplified DOM tree in one go. Intended for well-formed HTML.

Installation

With node.js:

npm install mini-html-parser

In the browser (with component):

$ component install matthewmueller/mini-html-parser

* Development: 16kb
* Minified + gzipped: 4kb

Example

``js
var html = '

some title

this is a post from mat.io.

';
var parser = parser(html);
var dom = parser.parse();
`

API

$3

Create a parser with the following html string.

$3

Parse the html string returning a simplified DOM object. The DOM object contains the following DOM nodes below. If the parser fails to parse the HTML string, parse will return an Error object.

#### element:

`
{
nodeName: 'A',
nodeType: 1,
childNodes: [...],
previousSibling: ...,
nextSibling: ...,
parentNode: ...
}
`

#### text:

`
{
nodeName: '#text',
nodeType: 3,
nodeValue: '...',
previousSibling: ...,
nextSibling: ...,
parentNode: ...
}
`

#### comment:

`
{
nodeName: '#comment',
nodeType: 8,
nodeValue: '...',
previousSibling: ...,
nextSibling: ...,
parentNode: ...
}
`

#### document fragment:

`
{
nodeName: '#fragment',
nodeType: 11,
nodeValue: null,
childNodes: [...],
previousSibling: null,
nextSibling: null,
parentNode: null
}
``

TODO

- handle other node types (doctype, etc.)
- benchmark

This library won't parse X...

This is not a full-blown XML parser. It's error handling is minimal and is best suited for well-formed HTML. For more information read this: http://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454/376773

Credits

A lot of the regular expressions and inspiration came from John Resig's Pure Javascript HTML Parser.

License

MIT