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

by 2shortplanks (968)

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.sht
- Re:I'm not sure what this was meant to do (Score:2)
  
  by ziggy (25) on 2002.04.24 10:46 (#7465) Journal
  
  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.
  
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