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• I'm not sure what this was meant to do (Score:1)

  by 2shortplanks (968) on 2002.04.24 10:15 (#7459) Homepage Journal

  but this is what I get

  http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/5day.shtml?world=0008:115: error: htmlParseEntityRef: no name
  Helvetica" SIZE="2"><a href="/weather/sports/index.shtml" class="index">Sport
                                                                                ^
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/5day.shtml?world=0008:122: error: htmlParseEntityRef: expecting ';'
      <FONT FACE="Arial, Helvetica" SIZE="2"><a href="/cgi-bin/forums/cgi?fid=750&pg
                                                                                ^
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/5day.shtml?world=0008:136: error: Attribute style redefined
  llspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" style="margin:0px;" style="float:left;
                                                                                ^
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/5day.shtml?world=0008:213: error: htmlParseEntityRef: expecting ';'
              <LI><A HREF="/cgi-bin/weather/setcookies.pl?0008&setweathercookie"><FO
                                                                            ^
  Query didn't return a nodeset. Value: Temperature (&#65533;&#65533;C / &#65533;&#65533;F) 16 / 60

  Is this meant to mean 16C / 60F?

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  • Re:I'm not sure what this was meant to do (Score:2)

    by Matts (1087)

    "Is this meant to mean 16C / 60F?"
    
    Yes.
    
    The other stuff I'm not sure how to turn off in xmllint. Perhaps 2>/dev/null ;-)
  • Re:I'm not sure what this was meant to do (Score:2)

    by ziggy (25)

    Try using HTML Tidy to convert HTML to XML before passing it through xpath. It'll likely generate some errors, but it tends to be more forgiving with HTML.