Siemen Stef should have added that XPath depends on using Monty's XMLParser suite. I tried your snippet on XMLDOMParser, and it parses correctly. I always use XMLHTMLParser for parsing HTML, because I can always see the exact relationship between the parsed structure and the original HTML. With Soup I often found the match difficult or even impossible. HTH Peter Kenny -----Original Message----- From: Pharo-users [mailto:pharo-users-bounces@lists.pharo.org] On Behalf Of Stephane Ducasse Sent: 08 November 2017 21:19 To: Any question about pharo is welcome <pharo-users@lists.pharo.org> Subject: Re: [Pharo-users] Soup bug(fix) Hi Siemen let me know your loging and I can add you to commit. Paul is also taking care of Soup. Now I like XPath for scraping. Did you see the tutorial I wrote with Peter. STef On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 2:17 PM, Siemen Baader <siemenbaader@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all,
who maintains Soup, the HTML parser? Stef?
It seems to auto-close <button> (and <a>) tags when nested inside another element. I wrote this test that fails:
testNestedButton "this works with nested <div> tags instead of <button> and when there is no enclosing <div> at all. but here <button> is auto-closed."
"a does not work either"
| soup | soup := Soup fromString: '<div><button> <span>text</span> </button> </div>'. self assert: soup div button span string equals: 'text'
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Where should I look to prevent Soup from auto-closing the tag, and where & how should I submit my fix?
cheers, Siemen