Tools for Processing and Parsing Beautiful Html Soups
The code that makes HTML pages display in the user's Web browser is HTML markup code. No matter where the programs, data, graphics, photos and information come from, eventually, the final product is almost always HTML markup.
Some might argue that HTML coding is not programming, but the fact is HTML coding is a big part of working with the world's most popular programming and scripting languages. HTML markup even has a specialized scripting language, Java Script, designed to work with the HTML document object model.
Using HTML in programming languages such as Java, C#, VB and Python for example is very productive. Specialized programming environments and frameworks are available for Web programming and that means getting the applications and databases to produce dynamic or static Web pages. Java programmers can use Java (J2EE) to develop Web sites and .Net programmers can use C# and VB to develop ASP Web sites.
The hardest part of working with HTML is when processing the HTML output. It can be a real pain to traverse the DOM tree, but there are software frameworks and libraries that can help get the job done including Beautiful Soup for Python, Tag Soup and Jericho Html Parser for Java. Java developers can easily use Beautiful Soup as well with the help of the Java version of Python called Jython.
Last, but not least, we mention Java Script, which is probably the most efficient way to work with HTML elements and the DOM tree. Java Script frameworks and libraries are available to make it very easy to work with HTML elements. For example, the jQuery Java Script library is a fantastic piece of software that makes working with HTML pleasant and efficient at the same time.