From: Dick Davies <rasputnik@...>
Date: 2005-11-28T19:29:02+09:00
Subject: Re: htmltokenizer bug?

On 28/11/05, Horacio Sanson <hsanson@moegi.waseda.jp> wrote:
>
> I am using htmltokenizer to extract the links of some web pages, my script
> worked perfectly until I started to parse pages with "<" and ">" chars in the
> text.
>
> a html string like this
>
> <a href="an_uri" > this is a <link> </a>
>
> causes the htmlparser to raise and exception; Error, tag is nil....
>
>
> Is there a patch or any way to make htmlparser to parse this text??

I think most *browsers* would choke on that :)

Have you tried using entities instead ?

( &lt; instead of < and &gt; instead of >)


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