Re: AdaCore xmlada throws XML_Fatal_Error on <script> tag

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

On Thursday, September 7, 2017 at 3:52:39 PM UTC-5, Stephen Leake wrote:
> 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.

Nope: 

stephe@Takver4$ /Projects/wasabee-code/target/text/wasabee_text.exe file:///Projects/org.stephe_leake.misc/build/discogs.html
protocole : file
host      : -- localhost - unused --
Port      :  0
Ressource : /Projects/org.stephe_leake.misc/build/discogs.html

Execution terminated by unhandled exception
raised SAX.READERS.XML_FATAL_ERROR : /Projects/org.stephe_leake.misc/build/discogs.html:48:5: Name differ for closing tag (expecting link, opened line 47)