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Asked: 2026-06-16T17:49:03+00:00

I am trying to parse a broken html page which has a comment inside

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I am trying to parse a broken html page which has a comment inside anther comment and all the famous htmlparsers like beautifulsoup, lxml and HTMLParser are giving syntax errors. Following is the code. How do I ignore the part of corrupt code and parse rest of the page?

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head>

<script language="JavaScript">
<!--
     function setTimeOffsetVars (Link) { 
   // code removed
 } 

<!-- Image Preloader - takes an array of images to preload --> 
    function warningCheck(e, warnMsg) {
   // code removed
}
-->
</script>

</head>

<body topmargin="0" leftmargin="0" rightmargin="0" bottommargin="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0">
<!-- lot of useful code -->
</body></html>
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  1. Editorial Team

    I have no errors with this html. I tried beautifulsoup4 and lxml.

    from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
soup = BeautifulSoup(s)
print soup.prettify()


<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
 <head>
  <script language="JavaScript">
   &lt;!--
     function setTimeOffsetVars (Link) { 
   // code removed
 } 

&lt;!-- Image Preloader - takes an array of images to preload --&gt; 
    function warningCheck(e, warnMsg) {
   // code removed
}
--&gt;
  </script>
 </head>
 <body bottommargin="0" leftmargin="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" rightmargin="0" topmargin="0">
  <!-- lot of useful code -->
 </body>
</html>
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