Johannes Nohl schrieb:
Dear list,
I player around with the units dom and xmlread. I liked them very
much. Now I thought I could parse websites with it. But they are
slightly different as far as I know. In xml everthing is within a node
while in HTML there are more then one value in a node. E.g.:
possible XML:
<div>
asdf1
<span>qwer1</span>
<span>qwer2</span>
</div>
HTML:
<div>
asdf1
<span>qwer1</span>
asdf2
<span>qwer2</span>
asdf3
</div>
Using XML-Dom I can access Value "asdf1" only. I think second example
is not valid XML, or?
Has anybody used XML to parse HTML-files? Is there a unit?
Yes.
HTML is based on SGML, and XML is a subset of SGML. So you cannot simply
parse any HTML file using a XML parser.
You can try to use the HTML parser (but which relies on more or less
correct HTML code) in packages/fpc-xml/sax_html.pp instead of the XML
parser, which should be able to parse most of all websites.
Regards,
Sebastian
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