O$: HTML Control to display/fix incorrect HTML

Mike Matthews omnis at lineal.co.uk
Wed Mar 11 09:31:45 EDT 2015


I think the answer would be to use the Awesomium project that several listers are trying to get finished.  Look back for Dave McKeone reply on 9th Feb 2015 at 18:13, it sums up where that project is currently.

Mike





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On 11 Mar 2015, at 12:50, Nick Renders <omnis1 at arcict.com> wrote:

> Hi List,
> 
> We use the HTML Control component to display some simple HTML pages and that works great.
> However, we noticed that those HTML pages do not use the correct entities.
> 
> For instance:
> 
> 	<p>Live & let live</p>
> 
> instead of:
> 
> 	<p>Live & let live</p>
> 
> 
> Now that we've begun to display the French version of those webpages, that has become a problem because there are a lot more occurrences of special characters.
> 
> The problem lies of course with the HTML code that is incorrect, but we cannot update the source files.
> We can only read the HTML code and display it in the HTML Control.
> 
> Anyone know what the best practice would be to fix the HTML code before displaying it?
> I can't encode the entire page at once because then the tags will also be converted to HTML entities.
> I've been thinking of parsing through the HTML code and only converting the text between tags, but I fear that might take too much time.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Nick Renders
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