Is there a better approach to parse an invalid HTML then applying Tidy on it?
Side Note : There are some situation when you can't have Tidy available. Regexp is also not recommended I understood for parsing html.
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A:
I would try something like this: http://php.net/manual/en/domdocument.loadhtml.php
From that page:
The function parses the HTML contained in the string source. Unlike loading XML, HTML does not have to be well-formed to load. This function may also be called statically to load and create a DOMDocument object.
Rob
2010-08-31 07:18:19
A:
SimpleHTMLDOM is known to be more lenient than PHP's native DOM functions.
Pekka
2010-08-31 07:19:21
Suggested third party alternatives to [SimpleHtmlDom](http://simplehtmldom.sourceforge.net/) that actually use [DOM](http://php.net/manual/en/book.dom.php) instead of String Parsing: [phpQuery](http://code.google.com/p/phpquery/), [Zend_Dom](http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.dom.html), [QueryPath](http://querypath.org/) and [FluentDom](http://www.fluentdom.org).
Gordon
2010-08-31 07:24:54
@Gordon this time you were too quick :) He is looking to parse broken HTML.
Pekka
2010-08-31 07:25:25
@Pekka which all DOM based parsers should be able to handle fine when using [libxml's HTML parser module](http://xmlsoft.org/html/libxml-HTMLparser.html).
Gordon
2010-08-31 07:26:53
@Gordon nice, wasn't aware of the difference!
Pekka
2010-08-31 07:44:10
A:
This question is a duplicate of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/292926/robust-mature-html-parser-for-php
demonkoryu
2010-08-31 08:42:45