Re: [xml] strange end-tag position (parsing html)

[Csaba Raduly <rcsaba gmail com>]

On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 12:18 AM, Steven Falken  wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm trying to parse bare.txt (attached, yes it is simply cnn.com). For
> this purpose I'm using parse.c (also attached).
> The output is output.txt (Attachment!).
> If you look at bare.txt, you see a <script> block from line 826 to
> line 886. Now if you look at output.txt, you see the
> <script>-Tag in line 759, but the end-Tag (</script>) is in line 784;
> the problem is, that this end-Tag is in the middle
> of the javascript-code, which is actually bad :(

This is because cnn's HTML sucks :). They can't seem to make up their
mind between HTML and XHTML.

Take a look at line 792 of output.txt: the for statement is mangled.
Looks like the '<' operator was interpreted by libxml as a start tag.
The </script> is in the place where a </a> is in bare.txt

Perhaps libxml2 betrayed its true nature (an XML parser) and parsed
bare.txt as XML (XHTML). In this case the content of <script> is also
parsed as, and must be valid XML (which it isn't).
See http://javascript.about.com/library/blxhtml.htm


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