Yeah, the error is thrown by HTMLParser, TAG is build on top of it. I will try some other tools like Beautifull Soup.
Thanks. 2014-05-20 10:04 GMT-03:00 Anthony <abasta...@gmail.com>: > No, TAG is only a basic parser and not robust against errors in the HTML. > You should probably use a more sophisticated tool, such as Beautiful Soup > (which is built on top of the lxml and html5lib parsers). The standard > library also includes the HTMLParser module, but you may run into similar > problems with that. > > Anthony > > > On Tuesday, May 20, 2014 8:14:37 AM UTC-4, yamandu wrote: >> >> I am trying to parse a HTML with the TAG helper from a fetched URL using >> urllib. >> The HTML is broken in some parts, it has end span tags without respective >> start span tags. >> >> TAG helper gives error: unable to balance span tag. >> >> I tested it. Open tags not closed are parsed, but not closed tags without >> open. >> >> Would be there a work around for this? >> > -- > Resources: > - http://web2py.com > - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) > - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) > - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "web2py-users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Att. Carlos J. Costa Cientista da Computação Esp. Gestão em Telecom EL MELECH NEEMAN! אָמֵן -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
