From: gautier_niouzes@hotmail.com
Subject: Re: AdaCore xmlada throws XML_Fatal_Error on <script> tag
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2017 13:05:07 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2017-09-07T13:05:07-07:00 [thread overview]
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> 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...
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Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-09-07 1:10 AdaCore xmlada throws XML_Fatal_Error on <script> tag Stephen Leake
2017-09-07 6:21 ` briot.emmanuel
2017-09-07 19:56 ` Stephen Leake
2017-09-08 23:31 ` Georg Bauhaus
2017-09-07 15:12 ` gautier_niouzes
2017-09-07 20:03 ` Stephen Leake
2017-09-07 20:05 ` gautier_niouzes [this message]
2017-09-07 20:47 ` Stephen Leake
2017-09-07 20:52 ` Stephen Leake
2017-09-07 20:54 ` Stephen Leake
2017-09-07 21:46 ` gautier_niouzes
2017-09-08 2:12 ` Stephen Leake
2017-09-08 5:38 ` Stephen Leake
2017-09-08 16:55 ` Shark8
2017-09-09 18:07 ` Stephen Leake
2017-09-09 19:35 ` Simon Wright
2017-09-08 5:40 ` gautier_niouzes
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