Here's some code using the example you gave:

<!-- Set up web resource -->
<set
x=<web "http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/Kobayashi00information.html"/> />

<!-- Convert to XHTML and Execute content -->
<set y=x.content.<html_to_xhtml />.<execute /> />

<!-- Extract all 'a' anchor tags one per line (takes several
seconds) -->
y.<get_with_value a_key="_parent" a_value=a returns='all' />.
<join <br /> />


The method 'get_with_value' returns 'all' of the links into a vector
so I can use the links, search them, or whatever. This example
displays the links.

Also, you could chain it all together like this (same code sans
comments):

<web "http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/Kobayashi00information.html"/>.
content.
<html_to_xhtml />.
<execute />.
<get_with_value a_key="_parent" a_value=a returns='all' />.
<join <br /> />

You could make a method of this and pass a URL as the parameter to
extract links from just about any properly formed web page.

<defmethod extract_links a_url="">
<web a_url />.
content.
<html_to_xhtml />.
<execute />.
<get_with_value a_key="_parent" a_value=a returns='all' />.
<join <br /> />
</defmethod>

<extract_links "http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/Kobayashi00information.ht
ml" />
<extract_links "http://www.mit.edu/" />


_Merrick

--- In waterlanguage@yahoogroups.com, "skramer072" <skramer072@y...>
wrote:
>
> I see a lot of examples of how to convert Water's HTML objects into
> strings, but I can't find any examples of how to convert a string
of
> HTML into hypertext objects.