trying to parse non valid html documents with HTMLParser

florent florent.newsgroups at kynesthesy.org
Wed Aug 3 06:12:01 EDT 2005


>  From http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/:
> 
>     You didn't write that awful page. You're just trying to get
>     some data out of it. Right now, you don't really care what
>     HTML is supposed to look like.
> 
>     Neither does this parser.

True, I just want to extract some data from html documents. But the 
problem is the same. The parser looses the position he was in the string 
when he encounters a bad tag.



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