From: Peter Szinek <peter@...>
Date: 2006-11-24T17:29:02+09:00
Subject: Re: mechanize question

_why wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 24, 2006 at 04:16:48AM +0900, Aaron Patterson wrote:
>> Mechanize uses HPricot for its HTML parsing.  If Hpricot can handle the
>> form tag that isn't closed, then you should be fine.  If HPricot cannot
>> handle the unbalanced form tag, you can write a pluggable parser to fix
>> up your HTML before it is run through HPricot.
> 
> If Hpricot cannot handle the tag, please open a ticket[1] or mail me, so I can
> fix it and add to my tests.  This way we all get to benefit from these wild tags
> you've captured.

Sure :-) I am just beginning with mechanize so I don't have a real-life
testcase yet, but since I am going to scrape tens or maybe hundreds of
pages with HPricot + mechanize in the near future, I guess something
will pop up sooner or later...

Peter

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