hi antoine... i had already tried tidy with no success... it still seems to still generate warnings... initFile -> tidy ->cleanFile -> perl app (using xpath/livxml) the xpath/linxml functions in the perl app complain regarding the file. my thought is that tidy isn't cleaning enough, or that the perl xpath/libxml functions are too strict! but the weird thing is that i can use Firefox with the DOM/Xpath plugin, and I can create an XPath Query that I can use within the Firefox/Plugin to generate the correct resulting list of items/elements based on the XPath Query. However, when i then use the same XPath Query, and the same wep page in my test app, i get the warnings/errors from the perl xpath/libxml functions.... i'm wondering if there's a way that i can call the Firefox Engine (using the Plugins, and have it do all the processing/parsing) and let it return the list of items/elements to me..... -bruce -----Original Message----- From: Antoine [mailto:melser.anton@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Saturday, July 01, 2006 12:30 AM To: bedouglas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; For users of Fedora Core releases Subject: Re: developing using the firefox engine On 01/07/06, bruce <bedouglas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > hi... > > i've been trying (unsuccessfully) to parse/process html files. i'm almost > certain that the issue has to do with the fact that the html is not valaid > html.. running the html through various apps "tidy/html validator/etc..." > complain with warnings. I have been having a similar problem with html, though this time the guilty party is mshtml. That piece of dog vomit *can not be made* to produce xhtml!!! I get the pseudo-html from mshtml, run it through sgmlreader+converter class and get (x)html out. I can then parse + process the file with standard xml/xsl tools. It took me an age to find good things for .net though - you shouldn't have nearly as many problems on linux/fedora. I suggest you pass it through tidy and get xhtml out. It may give you some junk but you don't really have many other options... Cheers Antoine -- This is where I should put some witty comment.
