Basic Question

[James Tauber]

-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Rudman <rudman at idetix.com>
>With the wealth of XML libraries available, I am more and more inclined to
>make use of these libraries to help me create, parse, and utilize my own
tag
>markup language to be embedded within an HTML document.  My understanding
of
>XML at this point is that it must be well-formed or a fatal error occurs.


Yes, this is correct.

>If this is the case, how can I deal with the fact that most HTML documents
>are NOT well-formed and that most HTML design tools do not enforce,
require,
>or even sometimes support, well-formedness in a document?


You might try Tidy as the initial step. Tidy can take bad HTML and spit out
XML that could then be parsed by any XML parser.

See http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett/tidy/

Hope this helps.

James
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Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Western Australia

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