Python 2.3.5 seems to choke when trying to parse html files, because it
doesn't realize that what's inside <!-- --> is a comment in HTML,
even if this comment is inside <script> </script>, especially if it's a
comment inside that script code too.
The html file:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html><head><ti tle>Choke on this</title>
<script language="JavaS cript">
<!--
// </ht ml> - this is a comment in JavaScript, which is itself inside
an HTML comment
-->
</script>
</head>
<body>
Hey there
</body>
</html>
The Python program:
from urllib2 import urlopen
from HTMLParser import HTMLParser
f = urlopen("file:///PATH_TO_THE_ABO VE/index.html")
p = HTMLParser()
p.feed(f.read() )
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> // </ht ml> - this is a comment in JavaScript, which is itself inside an HTML comment
This is supposed to be one line. Got wrapped during posting.
<g_************ **@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:11******** **************@ g44g2000cwa.goo glegroups.com.. . Python 2.3.5 seems to choke when trying to parse html files, because it
doesn't realize that what's inside <!-- --> is a comment in HTML,
even if this comment is inside <script> </script>, especially if it's a
comment inside that script code too.
Actually, you are technically incorrect; try validating the code you posted.
Google found this explanation: http://lachy.id.au/log/2005/05/script-comments
Feeding even slightly invalid HTML to the standard library parser will often
choke it. If you can't guarantee clean sources, best use Tidy first or another
parser entirely.
> this is a comment in JavaScript, which is itself inside an HTML comment
Don't nest HTML comments. Occasionaly it may break the browsers as
well.
(I remember this from one of the weirdest of bughunts : whenever the
number of characters between nested HTML comments was divisible by four
the page would render incorrectly ... or something of that sorts)
i.
"Istvan Albert" <is***********@ gmail.com> wrote: this is a comment in JavaScript, which is itself inside an HTML comment
Don't nest HTML comments. Occasionaly it may break the browsers as
well.
Did you read the post? He didn't nest HTML comments. He put a Javascript
comment inside an HTML comment, inside a <script></script> pair. Virtually
every page with Javascript does exactly the same thing.
--
- Tim Roberts, ti**@probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. g_************* *@yahoo.com wrote: Python 2.3.5 seems to choke when trying to parse html files, because it
doesn't realize that what's inside <!-- --> is a comment in HTML,
even if this comment is inside <script> </script>, especially if it's a
comment inside that script code too.
nope. what's inside <!-- --> is not a comment if it's inside a <script>
or <style> tag. read the spec: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/types.html#type-cdata
"Although the STYLE and SCRIPT elements use CDATA for their data
model, for these elements, CDATA must be handled differently by
user agents. Markup and entities must be treated as raw text and
passed to the application as is. The first occurrence of the
character sequence "</" (end-tag open delimiter) is treated as
terminating the end of the element's content. In valid documents,
this would be the end tag for the element."
in your case, the first occurrence of "</" is not the end tag.
you can disable proper parsing by setting the CDATA_CONTENT_E LEMENTS
attribute on the parser instance, before you start parsing. by default, it is
set to
CDATA_CONTENT_E LEMENTS = ("script", "style")
setting it to an empty tuple disables HTML-compliant handling for these
elements:
p = HTMLParser()
p.CDATA_CONTENT _ELEMENTS = ()
p.feed(f.read() )
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>> this is a comment in JavaScript, which is itself inside an HTML comment Did you read the post?
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