ZRzrail·Dec 16, 2013
Maybe Hpricot[1]? It's been deprecated for a long time but from what I remember it was much more lenient on the structure of the incoming document.
[1] https://github.com/hpricot/hpricot
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2 sourcesMy main problem with Java isn't the language itself. I think it's a pretty ok language as far as statically typed ones go.
My problem with Java is the way it's currently being used. E.g. using annotations to fix things that the language won't let you do elegantly.
There's a lot of horrible overengineering for relatively simple problems (you don't HAVE to use GOF patterns, they're just a suggestion for a solution. If you don't have the problem, don't use the solution!).
While there are a few nice libraries (e.g. http://jsoup.org/ ), even those usually don't have examples. Especially when you don't know the library yet, it's wonderful to get a few minimalist examples how to use it. Just compare:
Java: http://jsoup.org/
Ruby: https://github.com/hpricot/hpricot/wiki/ or http://nokogiri.org/
While both Ruby HTML parsers have a simple example r
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ight on the starting page, I have to make at least 6-7 targeted clicks for Jsoup.
The same even goes for the core libraries. Just look at Ruby's String class:
http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/String.html
And then look at Java's String class:
http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/lang/Strin...
In Ruby, almost any method has a small example. The Java doc only has an example for the constructor...