When searching the sites listed by google, it seemed that the world and his dog wanted to explain templating to me - how to get data from a dataset into some sort of styled html. Well, I need to do the opposite; use a template, some html pages, and some magic to get a nice, clean dataset.

Ok. So at first I was gonna attack the problem with some regexps. But, considering the number of seperate sets of data to untemplate, this is an extremely unattractive prospect.

I have a number of html pages for each day. Each day has one or more contributions. Also, the contributions have an option title.

Eg, a contribution like this may appear a few times in a page: 

<tr><td><b>A Title</b> - <b>12/3/2002 23:11</b>
<br>
Some Contribution
<p>
</td>
</tr>

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Unfortunately, the page HTML isn't always hunky-dory, it seems to side on the non-standard kind, which I think sidelines most of the HTML modules. Luckly though, all the contributions are all written in the same manner.

Can anyone help? Is there a module already written for something like this? If not, where would I start? Just quotemeta() the template and do some sort of match? But there's more than one match per page. I'm finding myself out of my league here...

tlhf
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