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[Htmlparser-user] <a> tags?

[Wojciech G. <woj...@gm...>]

Hi,

I'm a fairly new user of the HTML Parser software, and am already grateful
for all the work that has gone into it... I'm currently building some
software to extract RSS feed links. These appear in many different forms,
and there's one particular site that's giving me some trouble (www.mydd.com)...


Specifically, the link appears in the page, but surrounds an image, like so:

*<p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/mydd"><img src="..."></a>*

When I use a basic tag name filter, the actual tag above doesn't get
returned (while other <a> tag links do)... I've been playing around with the
code and don't know where to go from here. Is it because it surrounds an
image? Is there anything I can do to fix this?

I'd be grateful for any help.

Thank you,
Wojciech

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Re: [Htmlparser-user] <a> tags?

[Martin S. <mst...@gm...>]

2008/3/11, Wojciech Gryc <woj...@gm...>:

> Specifically, the link appears in the page, but surrounds an image, like so:
>
> <p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/mydd"><img
> src="..."></a>
>
> When I use a basic tag name filter, the actual tag above doesn't get
> returned (while other <a> tag links do)... I've been playing around with the
> code and don't know where to go from here. Is it because it surrounds an
> image? Is there anything I can do to fix this?

If it is only a problem with this particular piece of HTML, then it
could be useful to post it verbatim. Looking to the part you have in
your e-mail, it seems that the img-tag is not properly closed (it
should be <img src="..." /> if it is a XHTML document, that is).
However, I'm not sure if HTMLParser just ignores this... from previous
expieriences, I noted that HTMLParser is pretty strict when it comes
to standard compliance.

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Re: [Htmlparser-user] <a> tags?

[Wojciech G. <woj...@gm...>]

Hi Martin,

You're absolutely correct -- it's because of the incorrect closing (at least
that's what it seems to be), and it occurs multiple times.

Thanks for letting me know -- I ended up writing a quick regex script to
extract this stuff, so it works in its own special way, now. :)

Thanks again,
Wojciech

On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 5:41 AM, Martin Sturm <mst...@gm...> wrote:

> 2008/3/11, Wojciech Gryc <woj...@gm...>:
>
> > Specifically, the link appears in the page, but surrounds an image, like
> so:
> >
> > <p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/mydd"><img
> > src="..."></a>
> >
> > When I use a basic tag name filter, the actual tag above doesn't get
> > returned (while other <a> tag links do)... I've been playing around with
> the
> > code and don't know where to go from here. Is it because it surrounds an
> > image? Is there anything I can do to fix this?
>
> If it is only a problem with this particular piece of HTML, then it
> could be useful to post it verbatim. Looking to the part you have in
> your e-mail, it seems that the img-tag is not properly closed (it
> should be <img src="..." /> if it is a XHTML document, that is).
> However, I'm not sure if HTMLParser just ignores this... from previous
> expieriences, I noted that HTMLParser is pretty strict when it comes
> to standard compliance.
>
> --
> Martin Sturm
>
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