Invalid Tag Names
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Robert Sanders
Jul 25, 2012, 4:21:41 PM7/25/12
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Hi,
I've been tasked with converting some legacy HTML into an XML format for import into a CMS. The problem is that there is some metadata that is encoded in non-compliant "tags" left over from whatever was used to generate the HTML in the first place (and whomever was doing that is long gone). And when I say "non compliant" I don't been the "bogons", I mean stuff like:
<body>
<!!uid 5usc500>
<h2>This is the page title</h2>
So, is there any relatively simply way to transform the <!! type tags into something like an element, processing instruction or comment? If not then I'll probably end up just scanning for them using a regexp and then parsing the rest of the HTML using TagSoup.
I've been tasked with converting some legacy HTML into an XML format for import into a CMS. The problem is that there is some metadata that is encoded in non-compliant "tags" left over from whatever was used to generate the HTML in the first place (and whomever was doing that is long gone). And when I say "non compliant" I don't been the "bogons", I mean stuff like:
<body>
<!!uid 5usc500>
<h2>This is the page title</h2>
So, is there any relatively simply way to transform the <!! type tags into something like an element, processing instruction or comment? If not then I'll probably end up just scanning for them using a regexp and then parsing the rest of the HTML using TagSoup.
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