Re: [xml] HTMLparser too permissive

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 10:54:03AM +0200, Julien ALLANOS wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm parsing HTML documents with libxml2's HTMLparser, and here is an 
> example of nested javascript inside a HTML page:
>
> ...(HTML stuff)...
> <script>
>       ...(JS stuff)...
>       output.writeln("<script>");
>       ...(JS stuff)...
>       output.writeln("</scri"+"pt>");
>       ...(JS stuff)...
> </script>
> ...(HTML stuff)...
>
> What happens is that HTMLparser considers </scri"+"pt> as </script>, so 
> my SAX endElement callback is called and the rest of the document 
> disappears. The resulting document is:
>
> ...(HTML stuff)...
> <script>
>       ...(JS stuff)...
>       output.writeln("<script>");
>       ...(JS stuff)...
>       output.writeln("
> </script></body></html>
>
> Is there a way to avoid this without modifying the HTML document? Thanks 
> for feedback.
> -- 

  No way to avoid this. </ is used as the ending token.
Try "<" + "/script>" this might work better.

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  This is an improper use of the list, please fix, see the mail I sent
10mn ago :-( . Please tell your legal department that it is not tolerable
in an opensource community kind of work.

Daniel

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