Re: [xml] Bug in HTML parser output?

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 11:16:51AM +0100, Matt Sergeant wrote:
> In using libxml2's HTML parser to create valid XML, I noticed a "bug"...
>
> xmllint --html --format http://www.messagelabs.com/VirusEye/ | xmllint -
>
> Croaks on the bad ---> comment in the HTML.
>
> Is there any way to make this just "work"?

  hum, right this seems a loophole, the HTML parser is overly flexible to
be able to parse what's found on the net, but doesn't take corrective measures
to cleanup things like HTML comments 

> (yeah I know I should get them to fix thier nasty HTML too)

  I wonder what's the best approach: 
    - fix the HTML importer 
    - fix the XML serializer

the second case sounds quite more generic, I would be tempted to go that 
way. How urgent is this ?

Daniel

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