Re: XML Parser is a bit strict

At 11:52 01-01-19 +1100, Brian White wrote: >As far as I understand XHMTL, it simply HTML made XML compliant, which >basically means you always have to put in an end tag. True enough... There is a tool though on the w3c call HTMLTidy that you can pass your HTML code through and will give you back a clean XHTML document... You can then pass it through XML without problems... P.S.: I never tested that, but some folk told me it's working pretty well... >BTW - if you have an empty element such as "<br>" , in XML you have two >choices: > > 1) <br></br> > 2) <br/> (shorthand for (1) ) > > >At 05:09 PM 1/18/01 +0000, you wrote: > >I am using php 4.02 and Apache 1.3.12 and am trying to do some XML parsing. >HTML is also in the text I'm parsing and the xml parsing dies if it sees an >html tag that does not have a matching closing tag. Is there any work around >to this and if so is there a way to make it so XML tags don't need to be >closed too?