Re: [xml-dev] Parsing bad HTML

[COUTHURES Alain <alain.couthures@agencexml.com>]

For parsing purposes, I has written a Java function to convert bad html to just well formed xml (the resulting xml is not xhtml...).

It can be easily modified to correct < characters between valid html tags.

This is an opensource project : http://sourceforge.net/projects/light-html2xml

Alain COUTHURES
<agenceXML>
Bordeaux, France
Browser-side XForms without plug-in : http://www.agencexml.com/xsltforms


Paul M a écrit :

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I use tidy to clean up  bad html docs. It does a pretty good job of converting html => strict xthml

However, the following is a bit too much

<p>
₁₂₃4567<eight<img src="javascript:void(0);" alt="<b>hello</b>">
</p>

The problem is with 7<eight. Stray < and > seem to make tidy choke. What is the best method of handling this? I am leaning toward perl and regexp, but am hoping to avoid this. Maybe a Java solution? And tidy solutions?

-thanks