Re: [xml] xmllint --html problem?

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 01:03:40PM +0100, Elizabeth Mattijsen wrote:
> Does the following sequence of commands indicate a problem in the HTML 
> parsing of libxml or not?

  No

> # xmllint --version
> xmllint: using libxml version 20409
> # xmllint --html --encode UTF8 71.html >71.xml 2>/dev/null

 This parse an HTML resource and save an HTML resource.
I assume there was errors (2>/dev/null) so I don't have much context.

> # xmllint --noout  71.xml
> 71.xml:53: error: Input is not proper UTF-8, indicate encoding !
> ophy of Education, The</a><br/>Edited by Michael A. Peters (New Zealand)Ã? &amp
>                                                                              
>     ^
> 1.xml:53: error: Bytes: 0xC3 0x20 0x50 0x61
> ophy of Education, The</a><br/>Edited by Michael A. Peters (New Zealand)Ã? &amp
>
>
> File "71.html" available on request: it's about 53K which I thought would 
> be too large to send to the list right away...

  You're asking the XML parser to parse an HTML resource, it fails,
this is not surprizing.
  xmllint does not magically convert HTML to XHTML. Use Tidy for this
(see the W3C page for pointers).

Daniel

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