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Posted by Toby A Inkster on 04/23/07 10:56
Robert Maas, see http://tinyurl.com/uh3t wrote:
> Meanwhile I'm going to flush the / character from the original
> WebPage I downloaded so that the HTML parser I wrote a few days ago
> will accept it ... done, and parser likes it now!!
This is precisely the sort of reason I recommended using a prewritten HTML
parser and not writing your own. There is simply so much broken HTML out
there -- chances are a third-party parser will do a better job than you
will unless you have a hell of a lot of patience.
--
Toby A Inkster BSc (Hons) ARCS
http://tobyinkster.co.uk/
Geek of ~ HTML/SQL/Perl/PHP/Python*/Apache/Linux
* = I'm getting there!
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