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Parsing HTML with LibXML (Score:2)

by grantm (164)

LibXML expects xhtml and crashes all over the place when I ask xsh to parse the HTML output of my webapp

You know you can use parse_html* methods and set ->recover(1) to parse poorly formed HTML, right? I don't know if xsh supports this but if not, it should be easy to hack in.
- Re:Parsing HTML with LibXML (Score:1)
  
  by tomhukins (4457) on 2005.02.22 9:35 (#38416) Journal
  
  xsh does indeed work fine with LibXML's recover mode. Type help recovering and help open in the shell for details.
  
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  - Re:Parsing HTML with LibXML (Score:1)
    
    by rats (5689)
    
    'Crash' was being too harsh. xsh (i.e. LibXML) actually spits out a warning for each error in the HTML/XML with recover on. I *want* those errors to display because I am able to fix them in the production templates.
    But thank you (and grantm) for the heads up.

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