Re: [xml] parsing html with libxml2

[JASON JESSO <jesso1607 rogers com>]

So, is there a way with libxml2 html parser to ignore
these errors?



 --- Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com> wrote: 
> 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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