Stef, all,
I am doing some well-intentioned reverse-engineering of a system (aka trying to
read uncommented code) and have been looking at some html that it produces.
Scamper's parser was helpful some years back, so I looked on SqueakSource and
found two HTML packages. I had the validation package installed, so I decided
to add the scamper parser package.
Weirdness #1: I was curious about what was going to happen when I installed a
second HTML* package. I did NOT expect the existing package(s) to be replaced
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I owe you guys some serious testing on 1.3, so I decided to use the one-click
to run the scamper package. My plan was to view source on a locally-produced
page, select-all+copy and then pull the text from the clipboard to parse it. I
*should* have done this:
HtmlParser parse:Clipboard default clipboardText string readStream.
Aside from every other item being an empty HtmlAttributes (probably very
correct if a little odd looking), it does pretty much exactly what I had in
mind. I said I should have done the above. What I in fact did was
HtmlParser parse:Clipboard default clipboardText string readStream.
(the #string send is missing).
Weirdness #2: It's interesting, because I get a vm error (text all over the
main window with an offer to open an emergency evaluator) saying *** System
error handling failed ***.
Hitting any key clears the error and displays a walkback that will open a
debugger revealing that #replaceHtmlCharRefs is missing, or so that appears to
be the problem. Of course the real problem is that I evaluated the wrong
expression, but I should simply get the walkback, not the callstack. Is there
something I can do to help unravel the cause of the problem? I used the 1.3
one-click from the web site.
Bill
