minidom and pulldom

[Martin v. Löwis]

pinto at map.com (David Pinto) writes:

> I'm trying to use either the minidom or pulldom to find table tags in
> html web pages.  I've tried parsing two web pages that show up fine in
> my browser, but I get errors when I call minidom.parse, or try to get
> events with pulldom.  Is there a parser that is as forgiving as web
> browsers?

minidom is an XML parser. Most Web pages are not XML, but some form of
HTML.

You should have better chances with parsing HTML using htmllib.

Regards,
Martin