How use XML parsing tools on this one specific URL?

[Jorge Godoy]

"seberino at spawar.navy.mil" <seberino at spawar.navy.mil> writes:

> I understand that the web is full of ill-formed XHTML web pages but
> this is Microsoft:

Yes...  And Microsoft is responsible for a lot of the ill-formed pages on the
web be it on their website or made by their applications. 
>
> http://moneycentral.msn.com/companyreport?Symbol=BBBY
>
> I can't validate it and xml.minidom.dom.parseString won't work on it.
>
> If this was just some teenager's web site I'd move on.  Is there any
> hope avoiding regular expression hacks to extract the data from this
> page?

It all depends on what data you want.  Probably a non-validating parser would
be able to extract some things.  Another option is pass the page through some
validator that can fix the page, like tidy... 


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Jorge Godoy      <jgodoy at gmail.com>