Re: parsing html / xml (more)

On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 10:07:37AM -0700, Nathaniel Hekman wrote: > Here's another case that shows up often in html, but is illegal in xml, that > I would need to parse: meta tags, <p> tags, <hr> tags, and other > "singletons". > > <HEAD> > <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html"> > </HEAD> > > xml_parse would give an error, because the HEAD block is being closed with a > still-open META "block". Within the context of parsing HTML as XML, there's not really much that can be done. I suppose you could pre-proces the HTML to make it XML-complaitn, but that's probably more trouble than I would go to. You're not going to find an XML parser that allows for most HTML, because if such a parser did exist, it would be a broken XML parser. :) The only kind of HTML you can reliably parse with XML parsers is the XHTML variety (Which is simply HTML4, made XML-compliant) Matt