Re: [xml] Parsing a file that I didn't create

[Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi gmx net>]

* Jeffrey Bigham wrote:
> libxml correctly messes this up because the closing HTML tags between
> the </script> tags aren't correctly written as <\/name>.  Is there a
> way to use libxml (I'm currently using the SAX parser) without having
> it try to fix things for me?  If not, is there another C library that
> people know of that can just return each tag to me, one at a time,
> without enforcing adherence to the standard?

HTML Tidy (http://tidy.sf.net/) is able to cope with most of these cases
and you could use it as replacement or as pre-processor (e.g., you could
use it to convert the tag soup into well-formed XML and parse that with
libxml2). Perl's HTML::Parser (http://search.cpan.org/dist/HTML-Parser/)
is also written in C and can handle such tag soup in a similar way.
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