Re: List of pages to fix for HTML parsing errors

2009/5/17 Israel Saeta Pérez <[email protected]>:
> I've fixed a bunch of them related to documentation and striked them out in
> the spreadsheet. As you've said, most of them come from stx documents, where
> spurious <p> elements are inserted, even inside literal blocks. There are
> also some problems with URL encoding (with composite query strings) and
> entities encoding (&amp; &lt; &gt;).
>
> By the way, do we really need such a strict parsing that makes the page
> rendering blow up whenever the XHTML is not perfect? Can't the libxml2
> parser be 'patched' to accept valid enough XHTML?

The HTMLParser does try to be tolerant, but in SAX mode it seems to
break down when the errors are in an open tag near a chunk boundary
(zope serves data in 1024 byte chunks). If you have the C and SAX foo
to fix this, that would be great!

Laurence

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