[Htmlparser-user] Suggestion on Harvester

[Mohd-Taqiyuddin Z. <mt...@ec...>]

hi there,

I think a formtag should end when it sees another formtag although it is not 
an endtag. Another way of determining the endtag of formtag is to check 
wether it is the end of the html page by checking the endtag of hmtltag. 
This is because the in formtag, it's consist of inputtag and the importants 
information about a form is its method, action, and inputtag, therefore when 
the parser first see a formtag it will parse the node until it sees the 
endtag of the formtag, another formtag or the end of html document. 
therefore, we can logically group Vector of inputtag and other attributes to 
the appropriate formtag (if there is more than one formtag). I hope my 
explaination can help us improve htmlparser. thank you.

Quoting Somik Raha <so...@ya...>:

> This is a known limitation. The problem is in guessing
> when a form tag really should have ended. Can you
> suggest something looking at the page that failed ?
> 
> Regards,
> Somik
> --- Mohd-Taqiyuddin Zalfan <mt...@ec...>
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'm doing my harvester to harvest information in the
> > formtag. It works find 
> > when I parse to any html pages that I need to parse
> > except for this URL 
> >
> http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/Quizzes/misc/earlyadopterjxta.html.
> > It seems that the page that gives the error does not
> > have an endtag for the 
> > formtag and the parser loopback to find the endtag
> > for the formtag. Is this 
> > a bug? Do you know a solution that I can still parse
> > the page and still get 
> > the Vector FormInput for further processing. Hope
> > you can help me on this. 
> > below is the generated error.
> > "
> > ERROR: HTMLReader.readElement() : Error occurred
> > while trying to decipher 
> > the tag using scanners
> >     Tag being processed : FORM
> >     Current Tag Line : <form
> > action="earlyadopterjxtaanswers.jsp" 
> > method="POST">
> > at Line 690 : null
> > Previous Line 689 :     </HTML>
> > ERROR: HTMLReader.readElement() : Error occurred
> > while trying to read the 
> > next element,
> > at Line 690 : null
> > Previous Line 689 :     </HTML>
> > ERROR: Unexpected Exception occurred while reading 
> >
> http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/Quizzes/misc/earlyadopterjxta.html,
> > 
> > in nextHTMLNode
> > at Line 690 : null
> > Previous Line 689 :     </HTML>
> > org.htmlparser.util.ParserException: Unexpected
> > Exception occurred while 
> > reading
> >
> http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/Quizzes/misc/earlyadopterjxta
> > .html, in nextHTMLNode
> > at Line 690 : null
> > Previous Line 689 :     </HTML>"
> > 
> > 
> > 
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