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Re: LYNX-DEV knuj problem fixed
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Foteos Macrides |
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Re: LYNX-DEV knuj problem fixed |
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Wed, 12 Feb 1997 18:22:19 -0500 (EST) |
Laura Eaves <address@hidden> wrote:
>The webmaster at knuj fixed their bad html and lynx now processes their
>order page without a problem.
>
>Meanwhile, I played around with a patch in HTML.c to ignore nested form tags
>(as they're supposed to be illegal anyway, and Netscape seems to do something
>sensible with them).
>The patch is included below. Ignore it if you think it's a bad idea or if I
>missed something. This is only supposed to be error recovery.
Just to warn you, that patch isn't crash-safe, and no crash-safe
way to do what you'd like is feasible with the current Lynx API. Rob's
mods, in theory, are heading in a direction such that the current,
stack-based parsers can be eliminated, but that's in the future.
Fote
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