Re: [xml] A possible problem with libxml2

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 12:52:50AM +0800, Steve Underwood wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The attached HTML fragment is the start of an HTML document generated by
> MS Word. The HTML parser in libxml2 2.3.9 chokes on this, as it parses
> the XML document description stuff. As far as I can see, the markers
> before and after the XML should cause the XML to be ignored as an HTML
> comment, but it isn't. Am I missing something, or is libxml really doing
> something wrong here?

   Well I just ran 
     xmllint --html screwymail
and didn't get anything wrong with the CVS version nor the binary from
the 2.3.9 RPM on linux. I double checked htmlParseContent, and it looks fine
     xmllint --html --debug screwymail

 show the generated structure and it's clearly finishing with 2 big
comments:

      ELEMENT link
        ATTRIBUTE href
          TEXT
            content=cid:filelist.xml@01C0E8FB.319D4680
        ATTRIBUTE rel
          TEXT
            content=File-List
      COMMENT
        content=[if gte mso 9]><xml>  <o:OfficeDocumentS...
      COMMENT
        content=[if gte mso 9]><xml>  <w:WordDocument>  ...


  So I have no idea what is the problem you're seeing.

Daniel

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