Re: HTML parser in Ada ?

[gautier_niouzes@hotmail.com (Gautier)]

Preben Randhol:

> If you are not making something that is aimed to read the web-pages on
> the net, please make something that reads XHTML only or that it follows
> the HTML DTD strictly and rejects all faulty pages. Trying to make
> something that can read web-pages is very difficult and your
> application gets very error-prone. Most web-pages out there are broken
> and does not use propper HTML. So if you want to display the pages
> correctly then you have to make a lot of exceptions to the HTML DTD.

[x] Yes, I'm aware of it. I would put a "HTML_DTD_Strict: Boolean;"
somewhere, since one aim is to filter HTML files
"from the Web": remove the evil Javascript, meta's, ...
A more ambitious task would be to transform junk HTML into
compliant one - but I won't do it (mmmh... unless...).

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Didn't you know it ?

OK - I'll take a look at proposed solutions:
XML/Ada and OpenToken.
Thanks!
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