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Re: DOMDocument HTML problem

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On 2/21/2012 2:00 PM, Aaron Gray wrote:
> Hi, I am trying to take an incomplete "summary" of a number of
> characters of an HTML fragment without DOCTYPE, HTML, or BODY elements
> and a possibly incomplete unbalanced fragment, and convert it to a
> ballanced fragment without DOCTYPE, HTML, or BODY, using DOMDocument and
> friends.
>
> This is what I have got (it works without a Error 500 using php command
> line tool :-
>
> ~~~~
> <?php
>
> $html = '<div>
> <p><a href="#test">foo</a></p>
> <hr>
> <br>
> <div>name</div>
> ';
>
> $dom = new DOMDocument();
> $newdom = new DOMDocument();
>
> $dom->loadHTML($html);
>
> $Elements = $dom->childNodes;
>
> foreach ( $Elements as $Element ) {
>
> $NewElement = $newdom->createElement($Element->nodeName);
>
> if ($Element->attributes)
> foreach($Element->attributes as $attribute)
> $NewElement->setAttribute($attribute->name, $attribute->value);
>
> if ($Element->childNodes)
> foreach($Element->childNodes as $child)
> $NewElement->appendChild( $newdom->importNode($child, true));
>
> $newdom->appendChild( $NewElement);
> }
>
> echo $newdom->saveHTML();
> ?>
> ~~~~
>
> It balances the unbalanced <div> seems to be adding a duplicate
> <HTML></HTML> at the beginning of the output.
>
> Also I need to get the fragment of the code like a JavaScript DOM
> innerHTML without the <HTML> and <BODY> tags.
>
> Many thanks in advance.
>
> Hope you can help,
>
> Aaron
>
>
>

If your document is not well formed, DOMDocument has to guess at what it 
the document is supposed to represent.  Results are likely to be rather 
indeterminate.

This doesn't mean you need DOCTYPE, <head>, <body>, etc., but things 
like unbalanced <div> tags are likely to cause problems.

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DOMDocument HTML problem "Aaron Gray" <ang.usenet@gmail.com> - 2012-02-21 19:00 +0000
  Re: DOMDocument HTML problem Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2012-02-21 14:14 -0500
  Re: DOMDocument HTML problem "Aaron Gray" <ang.usenet@gmail.com> - 2012-02-21 20:08 +0000

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