anti-xml and HTML5

[kzys]

Hi Daniel,

I want to use anti-xml on a HTML document. Then I've added a method to switch a parser. With my patch, we can use anti-xml with the Validator.nu HTML5 parser.

object HTML extends com.codecommit.antixml.SAXParser {
  import com.codecommit.antixml._
  override def fromInputSource(source: org.xml.sax.InputSource): Group[Elem] =
    fromInputSource(source, new nu.validator.htmlparser.sax.HtmlParser)
}
...
// http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/the-end.html#an-introduction-to-error-handling-and-strange-cases-in-the-parser
val doc = HTML.fromString("<p>1<b>2<i>3</b>4</i>5</p>")

[djspiewak]

Hmm, I'm not entirely comfortable with two aspects of this:

• Overloading fromInputSource
• Only providing this API on SAXParser

Instead of this, what if we made NodeSeqSAXHandler part of the public API? This would allow you to use it with an arbitrary parse interface which can produce SAX events.

A more specific approach would be to add a HTMLParser to the Anti-XML library. I'm not particularly averse to that, though it does mean some interesting dependency issues.

[kzys]

Thank you. If I can use NodeSeqSAXHandler as the public API, it's great for my purpose.

And I think, HTMLParser is too specific. Anti-XML's approach is very interesting. Then I want to open the possibility for other parsers.

[djspiewak]

Done in 30f4fce. Thanks for all the feedback!