Re: [xml] HTMLparser enhancements

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 10:49:27PM +0000, Nick Kew wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> >   Yes, and it's basically a libxml2 only table, we don't expect
> > user code to allocate such entries.
>
> Indeed.  Actually I'd ideally like to make it writable and add a
> void* userdata field (which I'd use to store a function that'll
> be called from SAX [start|end]Element handlers).  But I thought
> that making it non-const would probably not be acceptable.

  basically it's a const table, I would prefer to keep it that way, yes.
You can probably keep that callback table separated in your own code,
right ?

> >   Hum, how do you fill that ? Based on HTML4.01 DTDs ?
>
> Yes.  Or, equivalently, XHTML 1.0.  It's basically just extending
> what you've done.

  okidoc

> > Seems you don't suggest handling required attributes (like alt on img).
>
> Indeed.  Yes, it would benefit from that info.  The reason I don't suggest
> it is that I haven't implemented it in this form, but it should be
> straightforward.  Also there's the issue that you can't do meaningful
> repair of missing attributes without human intervention.

  true, I was thinking about being able to signal the problem.

> Any recent changes to htmlParser?  Should I be sure to patch
> against current CVS, or will a recent-ish 2.4.x release suffice?

  no big change that I can think of, really. It's rather stable.

Daniel

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