HTML parsing about yq HOT 3 CLOSED

As an idea, parsing could be offloaded to a tool like himalaya or html-parse-stringify or similar, and then all you need to do is to pipe the result to jq like you already do for other tools 🙂

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Thanks for your interest. I probably will not support this. For XML, I rely on https://github.com/martinblech/xmltodict, which uses expat, which does not do well parsing HTML. I am unlikely to switch away from xmltodict, and I value its use of expat (because it's in the Python standard library). (In addition, I am likely to discontinue tq, because I find TOML not to be useful and am not aware of many users.)

You might consider using LXML to parse your HTML, then adapting xmltodict to use it, or use LXML's suggested recipe: https://lxml.de/FAQ.html#how-can-i-map-an-xml-tree-into-a-dict-of-dicts. If you find an elegant way to integrate that on top of yq, with LXML as an optional dependency, I'd be open to a PR.

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There is also https://github.com/sibprogrammer/xq

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