Re: Open source library for generating and parsing (x)html

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tidying 
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marlow.andrew@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
> But I am not so sure about my case. My need is to parse HTML for use
> by a screen scraper. The trouble is, most web pages, including the
> ones I am scraping, have ill-formed HTML. How does your library cope
> with that? I eventually gave up trying to do this in C++ and used
> python instead. It has a package called BeautifulSoup which is
> designed specifically to cope with ill-formed HTML.
> 
<OT>
htmltidy is your friend in this case.  Your system may have it
installed, otherwise it is very easy to build and use.
</OT>

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