Re: [Htmlparser-user] why some font tags are not treated as parent tag of the related text node?

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Brandy,

As your example illustrates, <B> is not often closed by a </B> which 
causes some grief for the parser. For this heuristic reason, not all 
possible tags are registered as CompositeTag nodes, which is what gives 
the 'parent/child' nesting relationship. The heading tags were just 
added recently in version 1.6, which alters the heuristic a bit, but 
seems to be acceptable to most people.

Derrick

Brandy Ye wrote:

> Hello, all
>  
> I'm a newbie of Htmlparser. I have a question when I wrote my 
> first sample using Htmlparser, something to show the html structures. 
>  
> When I use "getParent()" to get the parent of a text node, some tags 
> such as "<b>" and "<i>" are not treated as its parent node.
>  
> The html to be parsed:
>  
> <html>
> <title>test.html</title>
> <body>
> <b>
> <h1>
> content
> </h1>
> </font>
> </body>
> </html>
>  
> and the parent nodes  of "content" are: h1, body, html (but NO b).
>  
> Is it the expected behaviour? I found headingTag (h1,h2...) was not 
> treated as parent node too in Htmlparser1.5.
>  
> Thanks in advance!