Re: Parsing HTML

You might be able to try something like the code at this link..
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-tipboot2.html

set the DOMImplementation class to that of the html DOM implementation 
class.  Now things should work for you loading up plain HTML.

Jake

At 02:02 PM 3/24/2003 -0600, you wrote:
>I often work with XML, so I know how to load an XML file. Unfortunately, 
>other people will be creating these headers and footers using normal HTML 
>editors, and I don't want to force them to use XHTML if they don't want to 
>or know how.
>
>Maybe I could convert the HTML to XHTML on the fly when I need to.
>
>At 01:43 PM 3/24/2003, you wrote:
>
>>Here is an example of creating a Document from a file....of course this 
>>example assumes the file is valid XML....
>>
>>DocumentBuilderFactory dbfactory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance(); ...
>
>>I'm not sure how to modify this example to load a valid HTML4 file?  If 
>>you use this example, your file will have to be XHTML valid...meaning 
>>that all tags which are opened must then be closed.  If you come up with 
>>a way to do this with a non-XML-compliant HTML file, I'd appreciate it if 
>>you posted the example back to the list.
>
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