On 6/2/05, Nilay Puri, Noida wrote: > Hi All, > > while reading a html file from perl script, I want to ensure that all HTML > tags have closing HTML tags. > If closing HTML tags are not there, then, I need to put the closing tag in > place. > > Can anyone guide in this regard ? > > Thanks & Regards. >
There is no way, even in theory, to *always* correctly close an open HTML tag. Here's a trivial example: <p>some text <strong>some more text</p> Can any program correctly close the <strong> tag? Should it close the "some" word or all of the remaining text until the </p>? You can use HTML::Parser (http://search.cpan.org/dist/HTML-Parser/) to parse the HTML and use "if" statements to check for a missing closing tag. I think this will be very hard :) I think you are better of using an existing tool to "clean up" your HTML. Although not a Perl tool, I recommend "HTML Tidy": http://tidy.sourceforge.net/ HTH, -- Offer Kaye -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
