- From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 03:27:06 +0200
- To: "Matt G" <mattg@vguild.com>
- Cc: <html-tidy@w3.org>
* Matt G wrote:
>Is their a way to force Tidy to ignore "HTML good/bad-ness" and only convert
>badly formed HTML into well-formed XML (which should be much more
>efficient).
No and there won't be such an option.
>Or is there another utility (COM interface preferred,
>command-line okay, no GUI allowed) that will do this?
The Gnome XML library is able to do so, see http://xmlsoft.org/
>I don't care about producing good HTML/XHTML, all I need is to produce
>something I can shove into an XML parser and use XPath/XSLT to extract data.
The mentioned library comes with all you need to do so.
>It will be used by automation scripts and robots.
There is also HTML::TreeBuilder for Perl, but it does care about some
HTML flaws.
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