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Re: On the robustness of handlers

Chris Pimlott
Thu, 03 Aug 2000 16:36:10 -0700

On Tue, 1 Aug 2000, David Coppit wrote:

> Cool. Mind if I add a GetTable API function based on this?

        Be my guest.  The bit of code I pasted, though, relies on being
that the start of the table.  Give it something like
"aaaaaa<table>...</table>bbbbbb" and you'll get
"aaaaaa<table>...</table>" out.

        Also, it assumes starting tag will always start with "<table" and
ending tags always being "</table>".  I couldn't find the exact
specifications about this in the HTML standards but I believe something
like </table > is valid.  With some experiments, some stuff like "</
table>" and "< /table>" would go through w3's validator without a problem.

        Given it was for Yahoo, I figured I could trust them not to muck
up the tags.

        Chris Pimlott


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