RE: [xml] xmllint and HTML

[Alberto Manuel Brandão Simões <albie alfarrabio di uminho pt>]

On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 15:34, Jesse Pelton wrote:
> On the second point, at least, xmllint is correct.  According to
> http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-html40-19980424/present/graphics.html#edef-HR,
> an end tag for <hr> is forbidden in HTML.  (It's a different story in XHTML,
> of course, but XHTML should be treated as XML, not HTML.)

OK, then should I bugzilla it, or not?
By the way, it would be nice if --html do not complain if you send him a
xml file (looking to the header we could change to XML parser without
the user need to look at the file to see if it is xhtml).

Bests
Alberto
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Alberto Manuel Brandão Simões 
> > [mailto:albie alfarrabio di uminho pt] 
> > Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 10:00 AM
> > To: xml gnome org
> > Subject: [xml] xmllint and HTML
> >
> >
> > Hi!
> >
> > Although I may seem complaining, do not see it like that. 
> > Maybe it is my
> > bad English :)
> >
> > 1. I was used to use xmllint --html to process HTML or generic HTML
> > files with some special (mine) tags. Now, xmllint complains (ok, I can
> > ignore the complains :D but it would be nice to have a generic
> > pseudo-html processor)
> >
> > 2. The second problem is that an empty tag (again with xmllint --html)
> > gives complains: for example
> >  _.xml:2: error: Unexpected end tag : hr
> >  <hr></hr>
> >           ^
> > Thank for all ideas :D
> > best regards,
> > Alberto
> >
> >
> >
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