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Re: [gdome] Parsing HTML documents?

2009/8/17 Paolo Casarini <paolo casarini org>:
> Hello Bradley,
>
>   gdome2 works only with well formed XML documents, the only released
> modules (wrt DOM specifications) are Main, Events and XPath: the HTML module
> is an old, not working and not maintained implementation.
>
> If you deal only with well formed XHTML documents, you can use gdome2,
> otherwise, as Luca already said, libxml2 is the right choice for you.
>
> Best regards,
>   Paolo.
>
> On Aug 16, 2009 10:59 PM, "Bradley Kite" <bradley kite gmail com> wrote:
>
> Hello.
>
> I have been looking for a C library that provides a DOM interface to
> parsed HTML documents, however I have been struggling to make it work
> the way that I'd like (probably because I'm trying to use it
> incorrectly, no doubt!).
>
> Firstly, can gdome be used to parse HTML documents? I am aware that
> its more geared towards XML, which, although similar, has obvious
> differences!
>
> In any case, I'm using one of the examples as a start, however I'm
> getting this error while calling parse():
>
> parser error : StartTag: invalid element name
> <!doctype html><head><title>
>
> I guess the main question I have, is am I using the right tool? Or
> should I be using something more suited to HTML? If so, would any body
> have any recomendations? I need to be able to modify various
> components of the DOM, and it needs to be written in C (or C++, but
> preferably C).
>
> Many thanks
> --
> Bradley Kite
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Hi Luca and Paolo

Many thanks for your responses. I have started using libxml2 and found
it to be exactly what I require!

Kind Regards
--
Brad.
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