HtmlText GREL function locks up Google Refine

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Hello,

In running attached project, I am trying to parse column HTML with following 
GREL:

value.parseHtml().select("body")[0].select("table")[7].select("span")[1].htmlTex
t()

Which works OK.

However when I try following:

value.parseHtml().select("body")[0].select("table")[7].select("span")[2].htmlTex
t()

Refine hangs without any apparent error.

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Original issue reported on code.google.com by patelm...@gmail.com on 26 Sep 2012 at 11:36

Attachments:

• ACODEP-csv.google-refine.tar.gz

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Seems to work just fine for me in Google Chrome latest on WinXP 32bit using 
latest trunk version r2569.

I created a new NameBranchMerge column for you to continue with in the attached 
project.

Does your terminal or console report any Java errors of any kind when 
performing that GREL expression ?  What browser version are you using ?

Original comment by thadguidry on 27 Sep 2012 at 1:23

Attachments:

• ACODEP-csv.google-refine-FIXED.tar.gz

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Thanks for providing the data to reproduce the problem.  That's a big help.  
Don't forget to provide versions for Refine and your browser too.

I can confirm that the problem exists in Refine 2.5 and is fixed in the current 
development sources, I'm going to mark this as fixed.  Please retest when the 
2.6 beta is released.

If I had to guess, I'd say the problem has something to do with escaping of 
HTML entities or tags (it as embedded <br/> tags, but since it seems to work 
now, I'm not going to spend time figuring it out.

Original comment by tfmorris on 27 Sep 2012 at 8:03

• Changed state: Fixed
• Added labels: Milestone-2.6