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Thus we have the core. If(! If(! Web-scraping with VB's XML support - Lucian's VBlog. Module Helpers ''' <summary> ''' GetAttr: x.GetAttr("attr") is equivalent to x.
@attr. It's here to work around a MONO bug: MONO ''' will throw an exception on x. ''' also doesn't throw. ''' </summary> <System.Runtime.CompilerServices.Extension()> Function GetAttr(ByVal e As XElement, ByVal attr As String) As String If e Is Nothing Then Return "" For Each a In e.Attributes If String.Compare(attr, a.Name.LocalName, True) = 0 Then Return a.Value Next Return "" End Function ''' Fetch: this function fetches the given Url and saves it into a cache in a temporary directory. ''' It returns the filename. ''' "tidy.exe" (from to turn the html into valid XHTML such as can ''' be read with XElement.Load. ''' e.g. ''' previously, and the previous download was no more than "CacheAtLeastDays" old and hadn't ''' been deleted, then the previous download is used. ''' web-services, and we don't want to be too cruel on them, so even if they didn't specify caching.
How to submit a form using PHP. There are situations when you want to send data using POST to a URL, either local or remote.
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