{ Accepted as follow-up. Further discussion of general tools for HTML
tidying
would be off-topic unless there is some C++ content. -mod }
On May 10, 8:14 am, marlow.and...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> On 9 May, 08:25, Mitchel Haas <mh...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
>
> > For anyone with a need to generate or parse (x)html, I'd like to
> > announce a relatively new lightweight library for generating xhtml and
> > parsing xhtml and html.
> > If you have any need of xhtml/
> > html generation or parsing, I hope you can find the library useful.
>
> Thanks for making this available. I'm sure many will find it useful.
> 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.
>
>
>
> > Thanks,
>
> > Mitchel Haas
>
> Regards,
>
> Andrew Marlow
Try http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett/tidy/
to make the html well
formed.
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