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Re: Issue with NSXMLDocument and bad HTML

On Oct 18, 2005, at 4:51 PM, John Stiles wrote:
Actually, I think it is malformed. It claims to be XHTML, but contains JavaScript that is not inside a comment block. Look for "adPosTop". It's valid HTML, but that's not really the same thing.
That was just the first thing I found; it could be malformed in lots of other creative ways as well :)

I wouldn't use an XML parser to parse someone else's HTML -- even HTML that promises to be XHTML. I just don't trust anybody (even myself) to write perfect XHTML. I would either write my own parser or find something that's specifically designed to be an HTML parser, and to deal with imperfections. Maybe there's something in the Omni libraries you could use, or some other open-source browser code. For Java I know there's something called TagSoup which a coworker has used very successfully.

On the other hand, I vaguely remember asking if NSXMLParser could be used with HTML that is not well-formed XML, and I *thought* the answer was yes, but I don't see how. I see there are delegate methods for handling errors, but the errors always seem to be fatal, which means you can't recover in some forgiving way.

--Andy

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 >Issue with NSXMLDocument and bad HTML (From: Tito Ciuro <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Issue with NSXMLDocument and bad HTML (From: Brian Stern <email@hidden>)
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