Bug in HTML::Parser (<p> inside table cell)
Marcin Kasperski (Marcin.Kasperski@softax.com.pl)
Thu, 29 Apr 1999 12:22:33 +0200
It seems, that the HTML::Parser does not allow to place <p> inside table
cell. The parsing results are then wrong.
Example HTML file:
--------------------------------------------------------
TEST
--------------------------------------------------------
Dump of the tree created from this file:
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" "
" "
"TEST"
" "
" "
<BODY>
" "
<P>
<TABLE>
" "
<TR>
" "
<TD>
" La la la "
<P>
" Le le le "
<TABLE>
<TD>
" "
" "
" "
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as you can see "Le le le" went to top level and then next table was
started.
The program I used to dump it:
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#!/usr/bin/perl
use HTML::TreeBuilder;
foreach (@ARGV) {
open FILE, "< $_";
my @contents = <FILE>;
my $t = new HTML::TreeBuilder;
$t->parse(join("", @contents));
$t->dump($_);
}
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I noticed that behaviour in packages I found in Debian hamm
distribution, so I got the newest one from CPAN - they behave
incorrectly too. The newest versions I used are HTML-Parser-2.22 and
HTML-Tree-0.51.
PS. I'm not member of libwww-perl mailing list. Please cc answers to me
- I'm interested whether it is really a bug or I'm wrong...
PS2. I tried to send this report to the package author. But his email
seems to be not working (I got "no such user").
-- Marcin Kasperski Marcin.Kasperski<at>softax.com.pl
-- marckasp<at>friko6.onet.pl
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-- (My opinions are just my opinions.)
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