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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> Ben Sinclair
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