Re: Package Proposal: HTML_Sax

On Sat, 10 May 2003, Harry Fuecks wrote: > That's great news. And had no idea that DOM could handle badly formed XML > (HTML) as well. Just again for your information. I could patch ext/xml, so that it takes not-well formed html and produces sax-events out of it... It's just a proof of concept, try to finish and clean it up sometime soon chregu > > One other thing - is there anything looking at SAX filters in PEAR (or > otherwise) right now (can't find anything). Really like what Luis Argerich > has done with Sax filters here: > > http://phpxmlclasses.sourceforge.net/show_doc.php?class=class_sax_filters.html > - would be good to see something like this become part of PEAR as well. > > On Sat, 10 May 2003 13:25:09 +0200 (CEST), Christian Stocker > <chregu@bitflux.ch> wrote: > > > 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