htmllib question - Is this the best tool for my task?

[chris patti]

feoh at cosmic.com writes:

> Folks;
> 
> I have a task where I need to figure out if certain HTML tags (Rather
> Java Server Pages tags, but they're still HTML, kinda :) contain certain
> things in an HTML document I'd feed to the script.
> 
> I'm thinking htmllib is the right tool for this task, am I wrong?
> 
> So as far as I understand things thus far, I should subclass HTMLParser,
> define start_java and end_java tag functions.. But where from there?
> 
> How do I get a hold of the text within the tag I'm processing? None of
> this is clear from the htmllib doc.
> 
> Thanks!
> -Chris P.

To answer my own question - I ended up using regexps for this.

htmllib was overkill.

-Chris