Re: DOM Parsers

DOM will only work on well-formed XML, so you'd either have to use XHTML, or find a way to convert the standard grotty HTML most people (not me :-P) write to XHTML. That would be hairy indeed.

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Re (2): DOM Parsers by RatArsed (Monk) on Jul 26, 2001 at 15:01 UTC
Well, I've got the hair :o) If you wrote a really manky parser, I expect you could handle really manky code -- DOM was originally developed for (grotty) HTML, although I can see that XHTML would be easier to work with, as someone quoted the other day, "XML is for people who couldn't parse their way out of a paper bag"... XML::DOM looks to be halfway there, it would just need the methods added... Of course, if there was a W3 DOM Perl parser, the code required to then get it to render HTML would be virtually trivial. -- RatArsed	[reply]

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Re (2): DOM Parsers
by RatArsed (Monk) on Jul 26, 2001 at 15:01 UTC

If you wrote a really manky parser, I expect you could handle really manky code -- DOM was originally developed for (grotty) HTML, although I can see that XHTML would be easier to work with, as someone quoted the other day, "XML is for people who couldn't parse their way out of a paper bag"...

XML::DOM looks to be halfway there, it would just need the methods added...

Of course, if there was a W3 DOM Perl parser, the code required to then get it to render HTML would be virtually trivial.

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