Extract HTML from xml

Question

I want to extract html page from an xml file. Any ideas please ?

 <?xml ....>
      <first>
      </first>

         <second>
         </second>
      <xhtml>
          <html>
              .....some html code here
          </html>
      </xhtml>

I want to extract html page as it is from the above.

May be of help : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4980786/getting-html-from-xml-with-javascript-jquery — AllTooSir, Apr 15 '13 at 12:02
Did you tried to simply parse it with an XML parser, then get the node value? — Maen, Apr 15 '13 at 12:09
You can not do this, because HTML is not guaranteed to be well-formed XML. You can do it, however, if your XML file contains a fragment of XHTML. — Raedwald, Apr 15 '13 at 12:10
yes...its there html is under xhtml tag. Update my question. — af_khan, Apr 15 '13 at 12:15

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 15 '13 at 12:04

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because xml and html markup is similar any xml parser might have issues with it. I would suggest when you save the html data in the xml file, you encode it to prevent the xml parser from having issues. Then when you recall the data from the xml you just need to decode it for use.

<?xml ....?
<first></first>
<second></second>
<markup>
    &lt;html&gt;
        code here
    &lt;/html&gt;
</markup>

when you decode the markup section it will look like this

<html>
    code here
</html>

answered Apr 15 '13 at 12:04

Kenneth Garza

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i am not generating this xml... Its coming as a response from a webservice. So no control on what i get. – af_khan Apr 15 '13 at 12:06
ahh ok, well then no fun there. I am not awesome with java (or even decent at it) so I can be of little help on that front. Good luck though. – Kenneth Garza Apr 15 '13 at 12:12

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 15 '13 at 12:22

You might find this of some use:

http://www.w3schools.com/xml/xml_parser.asp

You can extract the HTML from the XML using JavaScript. You can then create an element on your HTML page in JavaScript and dump the HTML in there. The only issue with this is that it seems that the XML data you're receiving has a HTML tag.

If you want to add the content to an existing page, then you would have to strip the html and body tags.

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 12 '19 at 01:00

If you use python, extraction can be very easy.

from simplified_scrapy.simplified_doc import SimplifiedDoc 
html='''
 <?xml >
    <first>
    </first>
        <second>
        </second>
    <xhtml>
        <html>
            .....some html code here
        </html>
    </xhtml>
'''
doc = SimplifiedDoc(html)
html = doc.xhtml.html
print (html)

First you need to install simplified_scrapy using pip.

pip install simplified_scrapy

Extract HTML from xml

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