[Bioperl-l] Parsing html blast output?

[Wes Barris]

Hi,

I know it is possible to use the SearchIO functions to parse either
text blast output or xml blast output.  However, I would like to know
if it is possible to parse html blast output?  For example, if I wanted
to parse the output of this command:

blastcl3 -d nr -p blastn -T -i fasta.txt -o blast.html

When I try parsing the above "blast.html" file using example number 4
from this file:

	http://bioperl.org/HOWTOs/html/Graphics-HOWTO.html

I get errors.

What I ended up doing is writing a perl "de-htmlizer" that I use to
convert an html blast output file into a text-only blast output file.
Then I run the result through a bioperl blast parsing script.  Is
there a more elegant way to do this?

-- 
Wes Barris
E-Mail: Wes.Barris at csiro.au