Namespace error while parsing html document.

mr_p has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello Everyone,

I am still working on rss feed and came across another problem. I get the error message below. The exact code is posted below.

This is the Error.

/tmp/file.html:2: namespace error : Namespace prefix xmlns of attribute fb is not defined book.com/2008/fbml" xmlns:og="http://opengraphprotocol.org/schema" xml:lang="en" /tmp/file.html:2: namespace error : Namespace prefix xmlns of attribute og is not defined..........................

Please Help. Thanks again like always. You guys/gals are always there for me.

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
#use strict;
use warnings;
use warnings;
use XML::LibXML;
use LWP::UserAgent;
my $parser = XML::LibXML->new;

my $html_link = "http://www.marketwatch.com/story/brazil-mexico-stocks
+-face-quarterly-slides-2010-06-30?siteid=rss&rss=1";

$client = LWP::UserAgent->new();

my $capture = $client->get("$html_link", ":content_file" => "/tmp/file
+.html") || die "$!\n";
my $doc = $parser->parse_html_file("/tmp/file.html") || die "Error par
+sing: $!";

if (defined $doc )
{ print "HTML Doc OK.\n";}
else
{ print "HTML Doc BAD.\n";}
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Re: Namespace error while parsing html document. by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jun 30, 2010 at 21:44 UTC
It's not HTML. HTML doesn't even have namespaces. It claims to be XHTML, so you should be using `parse_file`. Unfortunately, it's not well-formed XHTML. Lots of unescaped ampersands and less-than symbols, for starters. The following fixes the escaping errors, but there's still a bunch of duplicate ids and unmatched tags: #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use warnings; use XML::LibXML qw( ); use LWP::UserAgent qw( ); sub text_to_xml { my ($text) = @_; $text =~ s/&/&/g; $text =~ s/</</g; return $text; } my $url = "http://www.marketwatch.com/story/brazil-mexico-stocks-face- +quarterly-slides-2010-06-30?siteid=rss&rss=1"; my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new(); my $response = $ua->get($url); $response->is_success() or die "Request failed: ". $response->status_line() ."\n"; my $xhtml = $response->decoded_content(charset => "none"); $xhtml =~ s{(<script[^>]>)(.?)(</script>)}{"$1".text_to_xml("$2")."$ +3"}sieg; $xhtml =~ s/&(?!#\|[a-zA-Z0-9]{1,8};)/&/g; my $parser = XML::LibXML->new; my $doc = $parser->parse_string($xhtml); [download] Remaining errors There's a parser option that directs libxml to recover from errors if possible. It might help. If not, HTML::Parser is designed to handle garbage.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: Namespace error while parsing html document. by mr_p (Scribe) on Jul 01, 2010 at 01:07 UTC
Thanks for your help. surprised the HTML is this bad. Browser renders it pretty good compare to LibXml.	[reply]
Re^3: Namespace error while parsing html document. by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jul 01, 2010 at 01:11 UTC
Browsers are very forgiving. LibXML expects XML or HTML. I suggested two options.	[reply]
Re^2: Namespace error while parsing html document. by mr_p (Scribe) on Jul 01, 2010 at 13:25 UTC
Do you know why I was not able to pass $content->{_content} to parse_html_string(), It was blank. Isn't $content->{_content} suppose to have the the file downloaded? Also, The only reason I need to load the html page is because I wanted to parse stylesheet link out. For Instance: Can I use RegExp to parse the below string? I would need to parse all three hrefs in to array. `<?xml-stylesheet href="perl1.css" type="text/css"?> <link href="//www.perl.org/css/perl1.css" rel="stylesheet"> <link href="/css/perl.css" rel="stylesheet">` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Namespace error while parsing html document. by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jul 01, 2010 at 17:43 UTC
Asked and answered. HTML::LinkExtor	[reply]
Re: Namespace error while parsing html document. by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jun 30, 2010 at 21:19 UTC
You seem to have forgotten to post the HTML.	[reply]
Re^2: Namespace error while parsing html document. by mr_p (Scribe) on Jun 30, 2010 at 21:25 UTC
It put code in to download the html $client->get. Also, I was not able to pass $content->{_content} to parse_html_string(), does anyone know why. Isn't $content->{_content} suppose to have the the file downloaded? I ended up reading the file.	[reply]
Re^3: Namespace error while parsing html document. by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jun 30, 2010 at 21:45 UTC
No, there's nothing like that in the docs.	[reply]
Re^3: Namespace error while parsing html document. by Corion (Patriarch) on Jun 30, 2010 at 21:28 UTC
Just as a note - please don't expect us to fetch HTML on your behalf. If you include the first two or three lines of the HTML as test data within your script instead of requiring us to write it to a temporary file in a location that might not even exist on our systems, you make things much more self-contained and easier for us to replicate. And if it is easier for us to replicate, that makes it easier for us to help you.	[reply]