Re: [xml] patch: support <embed> in HTML parser

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 10:15:06PM +1000, Michael Day wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
> 
> >>Is endTag=1 correct? (means the end tag can be omitted).
> >
> > other elements would close it then. I must admit I don't fully remember
> >the algorithm ...
> 
> Actually it looks a little bit more complicated still, as the embed 
> element *is* empty, but still has a close tag:
> 
>     <embed></embed>
> 
> Presumably this is for compatibility with browsers that don't recognise 
> it specially like img, and would get confused if it didn't close.
> 
> In theory this should require setting empty=1 and endTag=1, to indicate 
> that the element is empty but that end tag can be omitted. However, the 
> HTML parser does not really support this: if empty=1 it will complain 
> when it sees an end tag, even if there is no content in the element.
> 
> The next best alternative is to set empty=0 and endTag to 0, 1 or 3; it 
> doesn't seem to matter which.
> 
> Doing a quick grep in HTMLparser.c, it seems that endTag is only ever 
> compared with 3, and startTag is never checked at all (!) so maybe none 
> of this is very critical, anyway :)

  haha :-)

Daniel

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