Re: Parsing HTML : I would appreciate advice

Oliver Hunt <ojh16@student.canterbury.ac.nz>
15 Nov 2006 15:21:02 -0500

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From: Oliver Hunt <ojh16@student.canterbury.ac.nz>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 15 Nov 2006 15:21:02 -0500
Organization: Compilers Central
References: 06-11-059 06-11-072
Keywords: parse, practice
Posted-Date: 15 Nov 2006 15:21:01 EST

Just for the record i'd like to point out that HTML is *not* xml. It
isn't just a matter of most websites not being well formed -- the
HTML spec itself is not XML compliant.


For generated data you might be able to get away with an xml parser,
but there are a few html tags that aren't xml at all (they have no
closing tag, and using one is actually invalid html). So valid HTML
can break any standard XML parser.


--Oliver


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