SPUG: not_quite_XML::Parser

[Bill Campbell]

On Sat, Feb 10, 2007, Joshua ben Jore wrote:
>On 2/8/07, Michael R. Wolf <MichaelRWolf at att.net> wrote:
>> I've got some almost_XML code.  That is, it is not well-formed.  Almost well
>> formed, but "almost" is "not".  It appears to be line-oriented enough that a
>> simple-minded line processing could clean it up, but I don't want to rely on
>> simple-minded if there's a TagSoup::Parser that I could use to clean it up.
>> Suggestions?
>
>XML::LibXML has an "HTML" feature which lets it handle badly formed
>input. I've even used it to scrape web sites. Works neat.

I often cheat and pipe HTML through the ``tidy'' program before
parsing it.  I've done some scripts that de-Microsoft HTML to get
rid of metadata, font, and color stuff to produce clean HTML
(they're in python though not perl :-).

Bill
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