Re: [Htmlunit-user] Re: Re: htmlunit ignores some pages

[Brad C. <yo...@br...>]

Sounds like it might be a problem with xerces or nekohtml. What versions of these
are you running? Could you make a simple test case for this? (I can get to things
much quicker when I don't have to write a test)

Brad C

--- Niklas Vargensten <nik...@ja...> wrote:

> OK, so maybe the hyphen is not the issue. The problem is that the documents 
> don't have a complete ending tag. In my example, 
> i) <! DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" >
> 
> is skipped altogether. I suppose the reason is that the space at the end of 
> the tag (before the >) confuses the parser, making it expect 
> a url such as "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd" at the end. 
> 
> But - simply removing the last space, which gives us:
> ii) <! DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
> 
> works just fine with htmlunit. This is very strange behaviour, wouldn't you 
> say? If it is ok to exclude the ending url, then it should of course be ok to 
> have spaces at the end of the tag (before the >). In particular since a HTML 
> parser is not supposed to care too much about spaces. It just seems a bit too 
> picky :)
> 
> / Niklas