[Htmlparser-user] HTML parser bug with closing tag

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Hello,

HTMPParser does not work like expected.
If some XML conforming tags like <br/> are closed immediately, the 
following happens if an attribute is added:

<br /id="test">

I would instead expect this: <br id="test"/>

The attached test can be used for showing the problem.

Regards,
Karsten

import org.htmlparser.Node;
import org.htmlparser.Parser;
import org.htmlparser.nodes.TagNode;
import org.htmlparser.util.NodeIterator;
import org.htmlparser.util.NodeList;
import org.htmlparser.util.ParserException;
import org.junit.Test;

public class HTMLParserBug {

    private final String invalid = "<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-//W3C//DTD 
HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN\">" + "<html>" + "<head>"
                                         + "<meta 
http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1\">" 
+ "</head>" + "<body>"
                                         + "Text" + "<br/>" + "Text" + 
"</body>" + "</html>";

    @Test
    public void testClosingTag() {
        try {
            Parser parser = Parser.createParser(invalid, "ISO-8859-1");
            NodeIterator it = parser.elements();
            processNode(it);
        } catch (ParserException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }

    private static void processNode(NodeIterator it) throws 
ParserException {
        while (it.hasMoreNodes()) {
            Node node = it.nextNode();
            System.out.println(node);
            if (node instanceof TagNode) {
                ((TagNode) node).setAttribute("id", "test");
                System.out.println(node);
                NodeList list = ((TagNode) node).getChildren();
                if (list != null) {
                    processNode(list.elements());
                }
            }
        }
    }

}