Re: Package Proposal: HTML_Sax

Just For your information libxml2 is able to parse HTML documents and to produce SAX Events with it. As sterling now made a libxml2 based sax interface, it shouldn't be a big deal to support HTML Documents for SAX as well (domxml does it since quite some time) This does not say, that there shouldn't be a PHP based HTML_Sax class :) chregu On Sat, 10 May 2003, Harry Fuecks wrote: > Hi, > > As a first effort towards PEAR, wondering if you're interested in this > package; basically a SAX based parser for HTML and other badly formed XML > documents. This could prove useful in solving a number of problems such > converting HTML to XHTML and fixing other badly formed XML, parsing ASP.NET > templates or even as part of a PHP-GTK web browser. > > The code is up here; > http://www.phppatterns.com/index.php/filemanager/fileview/28/ > > This was originally a Python project of the same name which was ported to > PHP here http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpshelve - I've > spoken to the > author of the PHP version (Alexander Zhukov) who is no longer maintaining > it but has given me permission to use the PHP license instead of LGPL as > was published on Sourceforge. > > I've made some modifications to Alexander's version to make the HTML_Sax > API very similar to the native PHP XML extension (e.g. $parser- > >set_object($myHandler); and $parser->set_pi_handler('myPIHandler'); ) so > it should be possible to use it which any class designed for the native XML > extension as an alternative parser. I've also fixed some bugs and > limitations and believe the code is now pretty stable - some basic unit > tests are provided. Anyway - more detail in the download. > > Not so sure about the name. HTMLSax is fairly well known in Python I > believe and I think the name conveys what it does but it may cause > confusion with the existing PEAR::HTML_* classes which are more about > rendering HTML. Changing the name in the code requires only a few minor > modifications. > > Thanks, > > Harry > > -- nam...christian stocker adr...pflanzschulstr. 31, ch-8004 zurich pho...+41 43 317 9984 www...http://blog.bitflux.ch mob...+41 76 561 8860 ema...chregu@phant.ch wor...+41 1 240 5670 gpg...0x5CE1DECB