Just Missed Me – Chapter Zero
I became interested in hpricot while experimenting during the creation of a prospecting system for my employer. Driving home from work one day I hatched an idea for a website that would employ hpricot to pull its data from Wikipedia’s Persondata.
Due to the extremely large size of the associated data file I soon determined that an hpricot-based solution would not scale. Digging a bit on Wikipedia I discovered STX which appears to be a more promising means of proceeding. I’ll keep you posted.
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