Re: Finding syntactically-related children and parent Elements in XHTML.

On 5/2/05, Costas Mantratzis <cmantrat@ics.mq.edu.au> wrote:
> 
> Hello everyone.
> 
> Just picking your brains on something you might have come across while
> playing with JDOM, JTidy or similar components...
> 
> I'm trying to get my algorithm to understand which elements are
> syntactically directly related to their parents in an XHTML structure.

If I remember correctly, John Cowan's Tag Soup parser [1] does
something like this to fix up ill-formed (X)HTML. You may also find
the Relax NG approach to schemas useful, Relaxer [2] and Trang [3]
being fun tools in that space.

Cheers,
Danny. 

[1] http://mercury.ccil.org/~cowan/XML/tagsoup/
[2] http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/02/19/relaxer.html
[3] http://www.thaiopensource.com/relaxng/trang.html

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