transforming pseudo-HTML into XML

From: Fabrice Estiévenart <fe@cetic.be> Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 11:29:53 +0100 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20031212105704.0325d620@127.0.0.1> To: html-tidy@w3.org · This archive was generated by hypermail 2.2.0+W3C-0.50 : Tuesday, 2 June 2009 18:21:34 GMT

hi,

i'd like to transform an html file - including some user-defined tags such 
as <meta:element>, <meta:value>,... - into an xml document so that <meta>, 
<br>, <hr>,... elements will be closed

for example, the following file :

<html xmlns:meta="http://www.uri.com">
         <head>
                 <meta content="en" name="Language">
                 <meta:element name="title_head"><title><meta:value>About 
this site</meta:value></title></meta:element>
         </head>
         <body>
                 <hr>
                 <table>
                         <tbody>
                                 <tr>
                                         <meta:any>
                                                 <td>
                                                 ...
                                                 </td>
                                         </meta:any>
                                 </tr>
                         </tbody>
                 </table>
         </body>
</html>

would become :

<html xmlns:meta="http://www.uri.com">
         <head>
                 <meta content="en" name="Language"/>
                 <meta:element name="title_head"><title><meta:value>About 
this site</meta:value></title></meta:element>
         </head>
         <body>
                 <hr/>
                 <table>
                         <tbody>
                                 <tr>
                                         <meta:any>
                                                 <td>
                                                 ...
                                                 </td>
                                         </meta:any>
                                 </tr>
                         </tbody>
                 </table>
         </body>
</html>

with that tidy configuration file :
input-xml:yes
output-xml:yes
char-encoding:latin1
doctype:omit
indent:yes
quote-nbsp:no
quote-marks:no
quote-ampersand:no
new-blocklevel-tags : meta:element,meta:any,meta:value

i get errors such as "unexpected </head> in <meta>"...

could someone help me ?

AtDhVaAnNkCsE

Fabrice