No, TAG is only a basic parser and not robust against errors in the HTML. You should probably use a more sophisticated tool, such as Beautiful Soup (which is built on top of the lxml and html5lib parsers). The standard library also includes the HTMLParser module, but you may run into similar problems with that.
Anthony On Tuesday, May 20, 2014 8:14:37 AM UTC-4, yamandu wrote: > > I am trying to parse a HTML with the TAG helper from a fetched URL using > urllib. > The HTML is broken in some parts, it has end span tags without respective > start span tags. > > TAG helper gives error: unable to balance span tag. > > I tested it. Open tags not closed are parsed, but not closed tags without > open. > > Would be there a work around for this? > -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
