[squeak-dev] getting the XMLHTMLParser to stop fixing things

Fri Nov 26 13:52:12 UTC 2021

Hi Folks,

I was hoping I could use Mont's XMLHTMLParser to detect errors for me in my PEG parsing. Unfortunately, it fixes stuff!

Here, I have a missing </body> on the input stream

|document ios|

ios := ReadStream on: '<html>

<head>

</head>

  <body>

<p>Dude</p>

</html>'.

document := XMLHTMLParser parse: ios.

document inspect.

and the document shows it as fixed.

What I would like is for it to throw an error when content shows up outside any tags within the body tag.

For example this should pass: 

'<html

  <body>

      <p>Dude</p>

     </body>

</html>'.

this should not

'<html

  <body>

      should throw an error

      <p>Dude</p>

     </body>

</html>'.

Now, the XMLDOMParser throws a XMLWellFormednessException on any html, which I could use IF I can figure out how to get the XMLDOMParser to only barf on broken xHTML and display valid xHTML.

Hints appreciated.

thx
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