htmlText, xHTML and revXML

[David Bovill]

Jim _ thought that was the whole point of xHTML?

That is that xHTML is HTML that works with XML parsers - that is why you can
view xHTML outlines in tools such as GoLive. I assumed htmltext from it's
look was xHTML compliant - ans so always assumd that it would be
straightforward to parse with the XML tools....

 The question is where the logic breaks - is it that xMHTML cannot be parsed
with the XML tools in Rev - or is it that for some crazy reason htmltext is
not XHTML compliant (ie a subset of xHTML) and therefore alid XML. If the
latter which I suspect? - what would I need to do to htmltext to make it
valid XML?

On 23/12/06, Jim Ault <JimAultWins at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> HTML text is a system of tags that signal what item is <start> </end>
> whereas XML is much more of an 'outliner' with inheritance defining
> children
> and nodes.  They both have the <> </> look, but HTML is not regimented the
> same way except for Tables, Frames, and a few other constructs.
>
> Now if you add in javascript and css, HTML is even less like XML, so the
> parent.child relationship is even more remote.
>
> It is hard to imagine a single parser that would work for both.  Perhaps
> in
> special cases that you generate to stay within rules.
>
> Jim Ault
> Las Vegas
>
>
> On 12/22/06 10:17 PM, "David Bovill" <david at openpartnership.net> wrote:
>
> > I am using the script to parse the htmltext of Revs text fields - so it
> is a
> > nice fixed target. Here is the script I have at the moment modified
> slightly
> > from your suggestions to work with anchors:
> >
> > function html_ExtractAnchors someHtml
> >     put someHtml into htmlPage
> >     replace CR with empty in htmlPage --text is now one line
> >     replace "name=" with "name=" & CR in htmlPage
> >     replace "</a" with "</a" & CR in htmlPage
> >
> >     -- filter htmlPage with "*http://*"
> >     -- set the itemdel to ">"
> >     filter htmlPage with (quote & "*</a")
> >     set the itemdel to quote
> >
> >     put empty into newLinkList
> >     repeat for each line LNN in htmlPage
> >         put item 2 of LNN & cr after newLinkList
> >         -- put item 1 of LNN & cr after newLinkList
> >     end repeat
> >     delete last char of newLinkList
> >     return newLinkList
> > end html_ExtractAnchors
> >
> > NB - anyone managed to use  the XML libraries on htmltext - this is the
> sort
> > of thing I mean - which fais with html entities:
> >
> > function html_AttributeValues someHtml, attributeName, childName, depth
> >     -- does not work with htmlEntities!
> >
> >     put revCreateXMLTree(someHtml, true, true, false) into treeID
> >     if char 1 to 6 of treeID is "xmlerr" then
> >         put someHtml
> >         opn_Notify treeID, true
> >         exit to top
> >     end if
> >
> >     if depth is empty then put -1 into depth
> >     put revXMLRootNode(treeID) into startNode
> >     put revXMLAttributeValues(treeID, startNode, childName,
> attributeName,
> > CR, depth) into attributeValues
> >     revDeleteXMLTree treeID
> >     return word 1 to -1 of attributeValues
> > end html_AttributeValues
> >
> > Would be nice...
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