Re: [xml] XML/HTML Mixed mode parsing

[GPN <gpn libxml gmail com>]

Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 07:42:40PM +0530, GPN wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> > Today's web page designs, include both xml and html content,
> > most popularly xml content embedded in to html pages.
> >
> > My questions are -
> > 1. In order to handle both html and xml, it is better to use
> > the xml...() API's rather than the html...() API's.
> > Is this correct?
>
>
>   either it is a complete XML document or not. If this is 
> then use an XML parser. There is no intermediate or compound
> level at the spec level.
>
>
> > 2. Handling errors encountered while parsing the content.
> > I think (or assuming) that html errors are to be ignored,
>
>
>   no.
>
>
> > and hence most browsers do not complain about a page even
> > if it has errors. (This can be turned on though, but the
> > page display does not stop if there was an error).
>
>
>   right that's how browser interpret HTML 4.x based on SGML with
> an text/html Mime type. If there is an XML mime type they must 
> use a real XML parser and fail on fatal errors.
I am seeing if there is a viable solution for this. I need to parse
html pages, which will have xml content.
a) If I use an XML parser, then the parsing process will stop
even there was an error in html tags.
b) If I use a html parser, then the tags/atributes will be converted
to lower case (breaking XML rules).

Best Regards,
GPN