SAXParseException when trying to add an unclosed, raw `<link>` tag into a `head { ... }` block

Question

SAXParseException when trying to add an unclosed, raw `<link>` tag into a `head { ... }` block

bitspittle opened this issue a year ago · 4 comments

Specifically, org.xml.sax.SAXParseException; The element type "link" must be terminated by the matching end-tag "</link>".

Expected: kotlinx.html can receive unclosed <link> tags in the <head> element.
Actual: The <link> element, which is a void element and does not have to close in valid html (and in fact is how kotlinx.html generates it) is getting triggered with a parse exception by kotlinx.html

Repro steps

Here's a very simple example to show the issue:

println(createHTML().head {
    link {
        rel = "stylesheet"
        href = "https://example.com/fake.css"
    }
})

which outputs:

<head>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://example.com/fake.css">
</head>

Writing the kotlinx.html code to represent that...

document {
    append {
        head {
            unsafe {
                +"<link rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"https://example.com/fake.css\">"
            }
        }
    }
}

results in the unexpected stack trace:

org.xml.sax.SAXParseException; lineNumber: 1; columnNumber: 74; The element type "link" must be terminated by the matching end-tag "</link>".
        at java.xml/com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.DOMParser.parse(DOMParser.java:261)
        at java.xml/com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.DocumentBuilderImpl.parse(DocumentBuilderImpl.java:339)
        at kotlinx.html.dom.HTMLDOMBuilder$UnsafeImpl$1.unaryPlus(dom-jvm.kt:98)
        at ...