Hallo,

On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 6:28 PM, Steve Graham jsgrahamus@yahoo.com wrote:

Although I have programmed for decades, I am new to Scheme/Gambit.  I thought that I would use a project I've been contemplating as a help in learning the language. There is a website of scriptures which I wish to download.  Some of the webpages, of course, are indices into books and then chapters.  So I would need to follow the links until I got to the actual text, which I would then file into a database by volume, book, chapter and verse. I would appreciate any hints as to how to do this.  I'm thinking I would need some help with downloading web pages, stripping HTML and saving to a database.

For downloading the page Gambit already gives you TCP sockets but you would have to write the code for HTTP GET, which is not complex. For parsing the HTML you will need SSAX[1], there is a "package" for it in the Dumping Grounds[2]. Also in the Dumping Grounds you will find several database interfaces.

[1] - http://ssax.sourceforge.net/ [2] - http://dynamo.iro.umontreal.ca/~gambit/wiki/index.php/Dumping_Grounds

Cheers,