[XML4Lib] seeking good HTML to XML converter

[Walker, David]

PHP (and I would suspect some other languages) has a DOM class that can accept non-well-formed HTML via a loadHTML() method.  I assume it 'corrects' the HTML like browsers do?  See:

  http://us3.php.net/manual/en/domdocument.loadhtml.php

Anyway, that would provide a pretty painless path to an XSLT transformation, which I would agree with Jon is probably the best way to go:

   http://us3.php.net/manual/en/book.xsl.php

--Dave

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David Walker
Library Web Services Manager
California State University
http://xerxes.calstate.edu
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From: xml4lib-bounces at webjunction.org [xml4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Jon [jpstroop at gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 6:00 AM
To: xml4lib at webjunction.org
Subject: Re: [XML4Lib] seeking good HTML to XML converter

John,
As far as I know, unless you can guarantee that your HTML document(s)
are well-formed XML, you'll need to start with getting them into XHTML
format.  There are at least two tools available for doing this: Tidy[1]
and TagSoup[2]. I've only really used the former; it does the best it
can, if that makes sense.

Once you know you have well-formed documents you can use XSLT (1.0 or
2.0) to reformat your (X)HTML to another XML format.

Also, I ran across Elliotte Rusty Harold's newish book, Refactoring
HTML[3] recently.  It may have some material that can help you.

Hope this helps you get started,
-Jon

1. http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett/tidy/
2. http://home.ccil.org/~cowan/XML/tagsoup/
3. http://books.google.com/books?id=I2MKuc4iZDYC

Jon Stroop
Metadata Analyst
C-17-D2 Firestone Library
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544

Email: jstroop at princeton.edu
Phone: (609)258-0059
Fax: (609)258-0441

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John Fitzgibbon wrote:
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> Hi,
>
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> I am seeking a converter that will automatically convert a HTML file
> to XML (not XHTML). If it can operate in batch mode (convert a batch
> of HTML files to XML) that would be ideal.
>
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> I would appreciate any advice.
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>
>
> Regards
>
> John
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> John Fitzgibbon
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