Subject: RE: XHTML gives an error
From: "Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 22:17:28 +0100
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It's best not to call it XHTML when it isn't, you'll only confuse people. If
it were XHTML, you wouldn't have a problem.
John Cowan's TagSoup handles this document just fine. Just put it on your
classpath and use the -x:org.ccil.cowan.tagsoup.Parser option when calling
Saxon.
Regards,
Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
http://twitter.com/michaelhkay
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Badrul Anuar [mailto:askbard@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 02 July 2009 22:02
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: XHTML gives an error
>
> Michael Kay wrote:
> > Usually, if you want help understanding an error message,
> it helps to
> > tell people what the error message is.
> >
> >
> >> Does anybody know how to clean any XHTML file or to
> convert into XML.
> >> If I have the XML, the it would be easier for me to use XSL.
> >>
> >
> > You're confused. If it's XHTML then it already is XML, and doesn't
> > need converting. If the error message is telling you that it's not
> > XML, this means that it's not XHTML either.
> >
> Sorry for not giving the exact error. Firstly, when I try to
> run the XSL and received an error.
> The error was "The 'meta' start tag on line 11 does not match
> the end tag of 'head'. Line 14, position 3."
>
> So, I try to clean the XHTML using Tidy and receive another
> error "Reference to undeclared entity 'nbsp'. Line 293, position 16."
> The command used to clean the XHTML .. tidy -m filename.htm
>
> Since I received another error, I changed all to empty
> and finally I can run my XSL file.
>
> Since I have to run Tidy and remove the , I'm thinking
> about to change all the XHTML to XML.
> Sorry for misunderstanding.
>
> If you have any suggestion on how to minimize the work of
> cleaning XHTML and remove &nsbp, it would be better.
> The url for the XHTML is
> http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/viewAlert.x?alertId=18366
>
> Thank you for your explanation.
>
> Regards
> Badrul
>
> > Regards,
> >
> > Michael Kay
> > http://www.saxonica.com/
> > http://twitter.com/michaelhkay
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