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From: robert burrell donkin <robertburrelldonkin@blueyonder.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [digester] reading embedded HTML (or other mixed text)
Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 20:49:34 +0100
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another alternative might be to use nekoHTML 
(http://www.apache.org/~andyc/) to bootstrap a SAC pipeline.

- robert

On 23 May 2004, at 23:44, Adrian Sutton wrote:

> Sounds like you may want to run the HTML section through JTidy
> (http://jtidy.sourceforge.net) to convert it to XHTML first.  Then
> Digester should be able to at least parse it.
>
> Regards,
>
> Adrian Sutton.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Simon Kitching [mailto:simon@ecnetwork.co.nz]
> Sent: Monday, 24 May 2004 8:39 AM
> To: Jakarta Commons Users List
> Subject: Re: [digester] reading embedded HTML (or other mixed text)
>
> On Fri, 2004-05-21 at 12:34, Bill Keese wrote:
>> Is there any way to tell digester to read in the entire content of an
>> element (including text and sub-elements) as a single String? For
>> example, if I persist e-mail to XML, I'd like to use digester to read
>> the e-mail address list, etc., but the HTML content of the mail should
>> be read verbatim.
>>
>
> Hi Bill,
>
> HTML is not valid XML. Digester uses a standard XML parser to parse the
> input, so it is not possible to process an input document which is not
> valid XML.
>
> As Jose has said in a separate reply, you could wrap your HTML in CDATA
> tags in the input document. The xml parser will then see the contents 
> of
> that cdata section as just a text string - and so will Digester.
>
> Alternatively, you could use XHTML, which most browsers support. In 
> this
> case, you could then use NodeCreateRule.
>
> Regards,
>
> Simon
>
>
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