parsing an HTML document using Xerces DOM parser

[Gude Reshma <re...@yahoo.com>]

hi,

how can the user the Xerces DOM Parser to parse an HTML document? an HTML document is not well formed therfore i'm unable to parse it using the Xerces parser. I tried to well form the document using HTML Tidy tool given by W3C but this was not helpful. Any suggestions as to how i should parse an HTML document using the DOM Parser?

 

thanx.

 



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Re: parsing an HTML document using Xerces DOM parser

[Andy Clark <an...@apache.org>]

Gude Reshma wrote:
> how can the user the Xerces DOM Parser to parse an HTML document? an
> HTML document is not well formed therfore i'm unable to parse it using
> the Xerces parser. I tried to well form the document using HTML Tidy
> tool given by W3C but this was not helpful. Any suggestions as to how
> i should parse an HTML document using the DOM Parser?

See the mail I sent to the xerces-j-user mailing list on Monday
titled "Can Xerces Parse HTML? Yes, It Can!". I attached a simple
HTML parser for Xerces2. It's very basic but wanted to get some
feedback from people before I put more work into it.

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Andy Clark * andyc@apache.org

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