Parsing unexpectedly self-closed form tag

[arabcewicz]

Hello, take a look for the test:

var html = @"
<form />
<input name=""foo"">
<input name=""bar"">
</form>";
var doc = new HtmlDocument();
doc.LoadHtml(html);
doc.DocumentNode.Descendants("form").ElementAt(0).Descendants("input").Should().HaveCount(2);

It fails as the descendants input collection has no item. But such broken form elements are properly interpreted by browsers. Could you improve HAP parsing to handle this like browsers?

[JonathanMagnan]

Hello @arabcewicz ,

This issue is caused because form is not a self closing tag: http://xahlee.info/js/html5_non-closing_tag.html

We will try to check how we can handle it this scenario

Best Regards,

Jonathan

[sperlis]

Hi Jonathan,

Last update is from Jul 20, I was wondering if there was something new to share on this issue. I tried to resolve the issue myself, and the idea was to flatten the DOM tree, identify an empty form and a #test nodes with innerHtml of "" with orphaned form elements in between and try to collapse them into the form itself, I was hoping you could do it at parse time :)

Thank you in advance, Shahar

[JonathanMagnan]

Hello @sperlis ,

If I remember well, we tried some stuff but we didn't like our fix.

As said, the form is not a self-closed tag, so we maybe choose at this time to work on some other issue instead.