Re: [xml] parsing html with libxml2

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 01:52:00PM -0500, JASON JESSO wrote:
> I have saved an html page to a file from my browser. 
> When I parse the html with libxml2 (python) a get a
> lot of html parser errors.
>
> I looked at the html document and there are a number
> of mismatched tags and the sort.
>
> I tried several web browsers and they all have no
> problem with it.
>
> Why is that?

  Because "real html" i.e. what you find on the web is usually full
of errors, just that browsers tends to handles those errors in the
same way which makes the thing kind of work...  This real mess is the
reason why when designing XML they instructed that parser must fail
as soon as the hit an error and stop returning data from that point.

Daniel

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