Re: [xml] Does libxml parse html like browsers?

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 08:00:10PM -0800, Sebastien Boisvert wrote:
> But I need to know if libxml will parse an 'incorrect'
> HTML (you know, the usual kind on the net) and build a
> tree like browsers do, regardless of those errors (ie.
> throwing away whatever's not valid),

  yes, but the best way it to *try* it ! libxml2 does minimal fixups
contrary to Tidy.

> Also, is there an example specific to parsing HTML? Or

  xmllint --html code. 

> is the procedure the same as for xml with the
> xmlXXXXXXX commands replaced with their htmlXXXXXXX equivalents?

  basically yes
  http://xmlsoft.org/html/libxml-HTMLparser.html
  http://xmlsoft.org/html/libxml-HTMLtree.html

Daniel

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