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Re: [xml-dev] Parsing bad HTML

From: COUTHURES Alain <alain.couthures@---------.--->
To: Paul M <pjmaip@-----.--->
Date: 11/13/2008 8:50:00 PM
For parsing purposes, I has written a Java function to convert bad html 
to just well formed xml (the resulting xml is not xhtml...).

It can be easily modified to correct < characters between valid html tags.

This is an opensource project : 
http://sourceforge.net/projects/light-html2xml

Alain COUTHURES
<agenceXML>
Bordeaux, France
Browser-side XForms without plug-in : http://www.agencexml.com/xsltforms


Paul M a écrit :
> I use tidy to clean up  bad html docs. It does a pretty good job of 
> converting html => strict xthml
>
> However, the following is a bit too much
>
> <p>
> <sub>123</sub>4567<eight<img src="file.gif" alt="<b>hello</b>">
> </p>
>
> The problem is with 7<eight. Stray < and > seem to make tidy choke. 
> What is the best method of handling this? I am leaning toward perl and 
> regexp, but am hoping to avoid this. Maybe a Java solution? And tidy 
> solutions?
>
> -thanks
>



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