Can the following Xerces based HTML parser be interesting for your work? This is just the initial ANNOUNCE but there are further developments.
Have fun, Paulo Gaspar > -----Original Message----- > From: Andy Clark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2002 4:16 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [ANNOUNCE] Xerces HTML Parser > > > For a long time users have asked if Xerces can parse HTML files. > But since most HTML documents are not well-formed XML documents, > it is generally not possible to use a conforming XML parser to > read HTML documents. > > However, the Xerces Native Interface (XNI) that is the foundation > of the Xerces2 implementation defines a framework that allows > different kinds of parsers to be constructed by connecting a > pipeline of parser components. Therefore, as long as a component > can be written that generates the appropriate XNI "events", then > it can be used to emit SAX events, build DOM trees, or anything > else that you can think of. > > So, as a fun little exercise, I have written a basic HTML parser > using XNI. It consists of an HTML scanner component that can scan > HTML files and generate XNI events and a tag balancing component. > The tag balancer cleans up the events produced by the scanner, > balancing mismatched tags and adding tags where necessary. And > it does all of this in a streaming manner to minimize the amount > of memory required. > > Since I wrote the HTML parser as an example of using XNI and > because the code is considered alpha quality (but it seems to > work quite well, actually!), I am posting the code with a very > limited license. Even though it contains the complete source > code for the HTML parser, the license only allows the user to > experiment but gives no right to actually use the code in a > product. > > If the source isn't "free" or "open", why release it at all? > I want to get an idea of what people think of the code first. > Then, if there's enough interest, I would like to either donate > the code to the Xerces-J project or make it available elsewhere > under a true open source license. > > So, if you've been looking for a way to parse HTML documents > please try out the HTML parser and let me know what you think. > There should be enough information in the documentation to get > you started. Check out the "NekoHTML" project listed on my > Apache web site: http://www.apache.org/~andyc/ > > Have fun! > > -- > Andy Clark * [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
