[Htmlparser-developer] Please welcome Leslie Rohde

[Somik R. <so...@ya...>]

Hi Folks,
    We've got a new developer in our midst - Leslie Rohde. Leslie is a =
highly experienced programmer, programming since 1974 (that was before I =
was born).=20

Here's his intro :
"I have been a programmer since 1974.  I have been a tech biz owner,
much of it indep contract dev, since 1988.  I currently build tools for
the search engine optimization (SEO) community.  these tools are
cross platform, pure java.  See http://www.optitext.com for the my
current lead product (OptiLink). =20

I am currently using the built-in html parsing support in J2SE but
there are so many problems and they are so difficult to fix -- owing
to the monolithic/intertwined nature of that package -- that i have
elected to build my next release using an alternate parser.  having =
looked
at several options, your project wins because it is lightweight (fast is
not much of an issue in my application domain) and open source.

Ultimately, i will want to use htmlparser to compile a DOM tree but
my current needs can be met with just link spidering and text scanning.

By embedding htmlparser in my toolset, you can be sure that it will=20
(come to)
work on a really wide range of real html.  I'm sure to be a source of =
lots
of email traffic at first as i figure out the ins-and-outs of your =
project,
but since this _is_ my "day job" I have time and motivation to get =
things
fixed when they don't work."


On behalf of the rest of us - welcome!! The most exciting days on this =
project are when we get a dynamic new developer, for thats when we take =
on interesting, new directions. Feel free to ask as many questions as =
you like on this list. For intros about the rest-of-us, check =
http://htmlparser.sourceforge.net/design/contributors.html=20

Cheers,
Somik