Sounds like you may want to run the HTML section through JTidy (http://jtidy.sourceforge.net) to convert it to XHTML first. Then Digester should be able to at least parse it.
Regards, Adrian Sutton. -----Original Message----- From: Simon Kitching [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 24 May 2004 8:39 AM To: Jakarta Commons Users List Subject: Re: [digester] reading embedded HTML (or other mixed text) On Fri, 2004-05-21 at 12:34, Bill Keese wrote: > Is there any way to tell digester to read in the entire content of an > element (including text and sub-elements) as a single String? For > example, if I persist e-mail to XML, I'd like to use digester to read > the e-mail address list, etc., but the HTML content of the mail should > be read verbatim. > Hi Bill, HTML is not valid XML. Digester uses a standard XML parser to parse the input, so it is not possible to process an input document which is not valid XML. As Jose has said in a separate reply, you could wrap your HTML in CDATA tags in the input document. The xml parser will then see the contents of that cdata section as just a text string - and so will Digester. Alternatively, you could use XHTML, which most browsers support. In this case, you could then use NodeCreateRule. Regards, Simon --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
