Re: AdaCore xmlada throws XML_Fatal_Error on <script> tag

[Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>]

On Thursday, September 7, 2017 at 3:47:56 PM UTC-5, Stephen Leake wrote:
> On Thursday, September 7, 2017 at 3:05:08 PM UTC-5, gautier...@hotmail.com wrote:
> > > As Emmanuel pointed out, you need an HTML parser, not an XML parser.
> > 
> > Just developing on this topic: a typical random Web page is a mix of the following
> > 1) HTML (typically, <br> tags)
> > 2) Ill-formed HTML (closing tags that don't close anything, opening tags that are never closed, singleton tags written as closing tags: </br>)
> > 3) XHTML (HTML following XML syntax; e.g. <br />)
> > At some point, there was a will to impose a clean, well-defined standard (XHTML), but it did not succeed because of a typical phenomenon: browsers need to be compatible with 1) & 2) to be in use; a browser accepting only well-formed XHTML would be ignored by users...
> 
> So I got wasabee_text.adb to compile, and forgetting momentarily that it wants to fetch a URL, not read a local file, I typed "wasabee_text.exe discogs.html", and it said:
> 
> ...
> 
> This document is not an XHTML document
> 
> So is this supposed to be an HTML 4/5 parser, or an XHTML parser?

Digging a little deeper, one top level operation is:

   procedure Load_frame(ho: in out HT_object; from: DOM.Core.Node_List);

This creates an HTML object from an XML DOM tree. And the XML DOM tree is created by AdaCore xmlada. So this is not going to do me any good.

Unless you've modified the XML parser in exactly the way I need - I'll assume that and keep digging.