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How would I go about parsing HTML in C++ on my Webserver Application?

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libxml2 has a HTML parser. libxml++ is a wrapper for libxml2, but I'm not sure if it exposes the HTMLparser functionality.

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It will mainly depend on what you want to do retrieve in your webpage. You can try boost::spirit to create your own parser. (Or a Yacc/Lex parser).

If your are looking for more simple information in the HTML page, getc may be good enough...

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Hand parsing gets messy, even for relatively trivial cases.

Have you considered a Lexer/Parser, such as Flex/Bison? I highly recommend Antlr - and get AntlrWorks.

A picture is worth a thousand words, so this will tell you why - http://www.antlr.org/works/screenshots/editor.jpg