It just keeps mutat­ing! Ben Ham­mer­s­ley had the idea and imple­mented it in Perl, I made a Cold­Fu­sion ver­sion, Robby Lan­saw came up with not one but two improve­ments (see the com­ments on my post), and now Bill Rawl­in­son has made an uber-version, com­plete with mul­ti­ple out­put formats.

I’m still think­ing of how to make a crawl­ing ver­sion… I played around with the W3C Link Val­ida­tor — unfor­tu­nately it doesn’t return xml. I did some screen scrap­ing and pars­ing but my biggest hand­i­cap is that I suck at reg­u­lar expres­sions. I have read some of Ben Forta’s Regex book but it’s not work­ing yet. If any­one wants to give me a hand by show­ing how I can read a string and stick every­thing that’s between h2 tags into an array, please feel free to add a com­ment. If you’d pre­fer to make me work it out myself, that’s OK too, but a hint wouldn’t hurt!