Using xmllint and xpath with a less-than-perfect HTML document? Using xmllint and xpath with a less-than-perfect HTML document? xml xml

Using xmllint and xpath with a less-than-perfect HTML document?


html xml xpath xmllint

You can enable the HTML parser in xmllint using the --html command line option. That way, you will be able to process HTML documents.

html xml xpath xmllint

If does not abort the parsing, you can just hide the errors with:

2>/dev/null

Then there is Xidel, which I made just for picking some data from html pages. (although it is not perfect. I was told about two malformed documents it could not handle)

xidel  html.out -e //yourquery...

html xml xpath xmllint

You should pre-process the HTML with a lenient parser. (That's the main difference: HTML is allowed a much more lax syntax than XML.) That is, try HTML5-Tidy and let XMLLint work on the result:

input HTML | vTidy | vxmllint | vresult

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