How to ignore parseErrorOccurred when using NSXMLParser to parse xml

Question

I'm now using NSXMLParser to parse html, but when meet "br" tag in html, it will throw an error for mismatch and stop to parse, because typically "/br" tag will not appear in html. So I want to ignore this mismatch error to continue parse, how to deal with it?

@stackoverflow For example,
. NSXMLParser will throw an error with br mismatch error info. — Yuwen Yan, Apr 20 '12 at 11:18

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 19 '12 at 15:02

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Not the best solution, but you might consider to do some regex correction before parsing, such as:

$input =~ s/<br>/<br \/>/ig;

answered Apr 19 '12 at 15:02

Ωmega

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should I do the same thing to all single tag like br? is this the only way? – Yuwen Yan Apr 20 '12 at 02:17
ybbaigo - It is kind of "hack" solution, as regex is not the best approach to deal with HTML/XML. Good parsers should do handle it, but if not, you can do this regex correction for any kind of tag... – Ωmega Apr 20 '12 at 11:25
I think the best way is to use kissxml but NSXMLParser. – Yuwen Yan Apr 20 '12 at 12:45
@ybbaigo - Parser is always better solution then regex – Ωmega Apr 20 '12 at 12:46

How to ignore parseErrorOccurred when using NSXMLParser to parse xml

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