Re: [xml] Possible to get XHTML output from HTMLparser?

["R. Steven Rainwater" <srainwater ncc com>]

On Sun, 2009-01-04 at 15:39 +0100, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 12:25:57PM +0000, Martin (gzlist) wrote:
> > On 19/12/2008, R. Steven Rainwater <srainwater ncc com> wrote:
> > > I'm using libxml2 for an application that generates XHTML output. I've
> > >  recently needed to parse some nasty HTML tag soup input and incorporate
> > >  it into some of my pages. Libxml2's HTMLparser does a great job of
> > >  fixing up the bad HTML but it outputs HTML v4 markup. Is there any
> > >  existing function that will output XHTML markup from the HTMLparser?
> >
> > In libxml2 htmlDoc objects *are* xmlDoc objects, so if you just care
> > about well-formedness  any of the normal XML functions will do. Will
> > need to walk the tree to set the correct the namespace on all the
> > nodes however.
>
>   As martin said. If you want the extra XHTML1 serailization rules
> to be applied by the libxml2 serializer add the XHTML1 DTDs to the
> document after parsing and before calling the saving function.
> See http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#normative 3.1.1 4/

Ok, thanks, that makes sense. 

Do I need to write the code to walk the tree and apply the new name
space to each node or is there an existing function I'm missing along
the lines xmlSetTreeDoc() that will do it for me? If not, would you like
an xmlSetTreeNs() and xmlSetListNs() function or is this too obscure to
be generally useful?

-Steve