tl is a very fast, zero-copy HTML parser written in pure Rust.
Add tl to your dependencies.
toml
[dependencies]
tl = "0.4.0"
The main function is tl::parse(). It accepts an HTML source code string and parses it. It is important to note that tl currently silently ignores tags that are invalid, sort of like browsers do. Sometimes, this means that large chunks of the HTML document do not appear in the resulting AST, although in the future this will likely be customizable, in case you need explicit error checking.
Finding an element by its id attribute and printing the inner text: ```rust fn main() { let input = r#"
Hello
"#; let dom = tl::parse(input, tl::ParserOptions::default()); let parser = dom.parser(); let element = dom.getelementby_id("text") .expect("Failed to find element") .get(parser) .unwrap();println!("Inner text: {}", element.inner_text(parser));
} ```
Iterating over the subnodes of an HTML document: ```rust fn main() { let input = r#"
println!("{:?}", img);
} ```
Due to the zero-copy nature of parsers, the string must be kept alive for the entire lifetime of the parser/dom.
If this is not acceptable or simply not possible in your case, you can call tl::parse_owned().
This goes through the same steps as tl::parse() but returns an OwnedVDom instead of a VDom.
The difference is that OwnedVDom carefully creates a self-referential struct in which it stores the input string, so you can keep the OwnedVDom as long as you want and move it around as much as you want.