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libhtml-html5-parser-perl package

html2xhtml produces invald XML for MS Office HTML output

Bug #1706274 reported by Thomas Weber
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Bug Description

This is the document element created by MS Office on a Mac:

<html xmlns:x="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:excel"
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">
<!-- -->
</html>

html2xhtml outputs the following invalid XML with two xmlns namespace declarations:

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40" xmlns:x="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:excel"><head/><body>
</body></html>

I'm not sure what part of the Perl libraries is responsible for this and where to report this upstream. Any hints for that are very welcome.

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Kjetil Kjernsmo (kjetil) wrote :

I'm not 100% sure, since this module is a parser and not a serializer, but it appears HTML::HTML5::Parser is just building a DOM, and the serialization is then done by XML::LibXML. Therefore, it seems likely the bug is indeed in HTML::HTML5::Parser.

The upstream bug tracker is at
https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=HTML-HTML5-Parser
but unfortunately, it doesn't see a lot of attention these days. Nevertheless, please submit upstream.

Changed in libhtml-html5-parser-perl (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Kjetil Kjernsmo (kjetil) wrote :

I was able to reproduce the bug, and I have committed the example as test data to my own fork of the module: https://github.com/kjetilk/p5-html-html5-parser/commit/c4be3e6ee63d0850079c115ef4274e4c2c3befa9
I'm not a maintainer, so it doesn't bring us much closer to a solution though. Just did it since I have a fork :-)

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