Re: [Htmlparser-user] Lexer differences between 1.4 and 1.6

[Derrick O. <Der...@Ro...>]

Those are the primary resources. Mostly it's the Javadocs, for example 
there's a good summary piece of the most major difference (underlying 
lexer) in the lexer package:
http://htmlparser.sourceforge.net/javadoc/org/htmlparser/lexer/package-summary.html

Vincent Mallet wrote:

> Thanks Derrick.
>
> Are "changes.txt" and "release.txt" all the documents about the 
> evolution of htmlparser between 1.4 and 1.5/1.6, or is there something 
> else that would talk about changes in concepts and design between the 
> different releases?
>
> Thanks,
>
>     Vince.
>
> On 2/28/06, *Derrick Oswald* <Der...@ro... 
> <mailto:Der...@ro...>> wrote:
>
>
>     No, sorry, there is no 'backwards compatibility' switch.
>
>     Vincent Mallet wrote:
>
>     >Hello,
>     >
>     >I have some code that uses htmlparser 1.4 and  I am looking at
>     >upgrading it to the latest 1.6 integration build. However, I am
>     seeing
>     >differences in the way the input is processed that make the work
>     more
>     >difficult.
>     >
>     >Given the input (note it's missing a quote):
>     >Hello <a href="http://www.foo.com>World</a>
>     >
>     >With htmlparser 1.4, I get the following nodes:
>     >Text: Hello
>     >Begin tag: a href="http://www.foo.com"
>     >Text: World
>     >End tag: a
>     >
>     >With htmlparser 1.6, I get these:
>     >Text: Hello
>     >LinkTag: link to http://www.foo.com>link</a>
>     >
>     >The 1.6 behavior makes error recovery a lot more difficult. Is
>     there a
>     >way to have 1.6 behave like 1.4 in this case?
>     >
>     >Thanks for your help,
>     >
>     >    Vince.
>