HTML Parsing With Hpricot

The document discusses using the Ruby programming language and tools like Hpricot and XPath to parse HTML documents, highlighting how Hpricot can be used to easily extract information like country names and URLs from a weather website that has a poorly structured table layout. Steps provided include inspecting the site with Firebug to get element XPaths and then parsing the HTML using Hpricot to retrieve the desired data.