get error when using xmerl to parse a html string

[Marc Worrell]

HTML is not XML

You can use the HTML parser (and sanitizer) in zotonic_stdlib

https://github.com/zotonic/z_stdlib/tree/master/src <https://github.com/zotonic/z_stdlib/tree/master/src>

Check z_html.erl en z_html_parse.erl

The parser is an adapted version of the parser in mochiweb.

Cheers,

Marc


> On 22 Apr 2020, at 11:06, L yrosgi <absente@REDACTED> wrote:
> 
> I checked the error report and found that it can not parse the text which contains escape character such like "&nbsp". After googling for a while, I still can not find any solution by using xmerl lib. Is that means xmerl can not do this kind of parsing, or there is other built-in solution to parse html?
> 
> Thanks for any replys.
> 
> below is the error messages:
> 
> =ERROR REPORT==== 22-Apr-2020::12:16:45.003000 ===
> 2868- fatal: {unknown_entity_ref,nbsp}
> 
> =ERROR REPORT==== 22-Apr-2020::12:16:45.003000 ===
> 2778- fatal: error_scanning_entity_ref
> 
> escript: exception exit: {fatal,
>                     {error_scanning_entity_ref,
>                         {file,file_name_unknown},
>                         {line,126},
>                         {col,60}}}
>   in function  xmerl_scan:fatal/2 (xmerl_scan.erl, line 4124)
>   in call from xmerl_scan:scan_content/11 (xmerl_scan.erl, line 2579)
>   in call from xmerl_scan:scan_element/12 (xmerl_scan.erl, line 2133)
>   in call from xmerl_scan:scan_content/11 (xmerl_scan.erl, line 2605)
>   in call from xmerl_scan:scan_element/12 (xmerl_scan.erl, line 2133)
>   in call from xmerl_scan:scan_content/11 (xmerl_scan.erl, line 2605)
>   in call from xmerl_scan:scan_element/12 (xmerl_scan.erl, line 2133)
>   in call from xmerl_scan:scan_content/11 (xmerl_scan.erl, line 2605)

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