Re: HTML parser in Ada ?

[Preben Randhol <randhol+news@pvv.org>]

Gautier wrote:
> [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...).

If you want to do the latter, then make sure you read the whole html
file first and then start mending it. Don't try to parse and fix as you
read the file. The biggest problem is that people put tags inside other
tags where it is not allowed. If only HTML had been more strict to start
with or should I say the browsers. Still I don't know a browser who will
tell you this page is not valid HTML. There is the W3 pages to do the
validation, but I think that browsers should also do this so that when
people make web pages they will see it and fix it right away.

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