elematch
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Efficient HTML elment matching and -processing
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elematch 
Efficient element matching and processing for HTML5 DOM serialized HTML.
Usage
var EleMatch = require('elematch');
/**
* @param {object} node, a DOM node like object.
* @return {object} Anything really; return values are accumulated in an
* array.
*/
function handler(node, ctx) {
// Do something with the node
return node;
}
// Create a matcher to handle some elements, using CSS syntax. To avoid
// shipping a CSS parser to clients, CSS selectors are only supported in node.
var matcher = new EleMatch({
'test-element[foo="bar"]': handler,
'foo-bar': handler,
}, {
ctx: { hello: 'world' }
});
// Create the same matcher using more powerful rule objects. These are
// supported in node & the client, and offer full functionality.
var matcher = new EleMatch([
{
selector: {
nodeName: 'test-element',
attributes: [{
name: 'foo',
operator: '=',
value: 'bar'
}],
},
handler: handler,
// Optional: Request node.innerHTML / outerHTML as `ReadableStream`
// instances. Only available in rule objects.
stream: false
}, {
selector: { nodeName: 'foo-bar' },
handler: handler
}], {
ctx: { hello: world }
});
var testDoc = "<html><body><div>"
+ "<test-element foo='bar'>foo</test-element>"
+ "</div></body>";
// Finally, execute it all.
var match = matcher.match(testDoc);
console.log(match);
// {
// done: true,
// values: [
// "<html><body><div>",
// {
// "nodeName": "test-element",
// "attributes": {
// "foo": "bar"
// },
// "outerHTML": "<test-element foo='bar'>foo</test-element>",
// "innerHTML": "foo"
// },
// "</div></body>"
// ]
// }Performance
Using the Barack Obama
article (1.5mb HTML, part of npm test):
elematchmatch & replace all 32<figure>elements: 1.95mselematchmatch & replace all links: 14.98mselematchmatch & replace a specific link (a[href="./Riverdale,_Chicago"]): 2.24mselematchmatch & replace references section (ol[typeof="mw:Extension/references"]): 3.7mslibxmlDOM parse: 26.3mslibxmlDOM round-trip: 50.8mshtmlparser2DOM parse: 66.8mshtmlparser2DOM round-trip: 99.7mshtmlparser2SAX parse: 70.6msdominoDOM parse: 225.8msdominoDOM round-trip: 248.6ms
Using a smaller (1.1mb) version of the same page:
- SAX parse via libxmljs (node) and no-op handlers: 64ms
- XML DOM parse via libxmljs (node): 16ms
- XPATH match for ID (ex:
dom.find('//*[@id = "mw123"]')) : 15ms - XPATH match for class (ex:
dom.find("//*[contains(concat(' ', normalize-space(@class), ' '), ' interlanguage-link ')]"): 34ms
- XPATH match for ID (ex:
- HTML5 DOM parse via Mozilla's html5ever: 32ms
- full round-trip with serialization: 60ms
- HTML5 DOM parse via domino (node): 220ms
Syntactical requirements
elematch gets much of its efficiency from leveraging the syntactic
regularity of HTML5 and
XMLSerializer
DOM serialization.
Detailed requirements (all true for HTML5 and XMLSerializer output):
- Well-formed DOM: Handled tags are balanced.
- Quoted attributes: All attribute values are quoted using single or double quotes.