Convert HTML files into well-formed XML

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The Chilkat Ruby HTML-to-XML conversion component will convert any HTML to well-formed XML. After converting, existing XML parsers, tools, and libraries can be leveraged to extract (scrape) information.

The input/output files used in this example are provided here, along details explaining rules for conversion.

• HTML Example #1
• HTML Example #2
• HTML Example #3

# file: htmlToXml.rb

require 'rubygems'
require 'chilkat'

# Ruby script to convert HTML files to well-formed XML

htmlConv = Chilkat::CkHtmlToXml.new()
success = htmlConv.UnlockComponent("anything for 30-day trial")
if not success
	print "component is locked!"
	exit
end

htmlConv.ConvertFile("exampleData/test1.html","output/test1.xml")
htmlConv.ConvertFile("exampleData/test2.html","output/test2.xml")
htmlConv.ConvertFile("exampleData/test3.html","output/test3.xml")