[twill] Error with showforms again

[William K. Volkman]

Hi Peri and Titus,
On Tue, 2005-12-13 at 14:38, Titus Brown wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 02:35:13PM -0700, William K. Volkman wrote:
> -> On Tue, 2005-12-13 at 13:40, Peri Cumali wrote:
> -> > On this page
> -> > http://www.playfirst.com/cart.html
> -> > 
> -> > I get the following error when I use showforms (with or with out tidy)
> -> > ERROR:  start of INPUT before start of FORM
> -> > 
> -> > Not sure ahy it's balking but would like to know.  Also even a python 
> -> > workaround would be nice so that I can submit a coupon code
> -> 
> -> I've not checked the site however I've seen this problem with
> -> mechanize before.  The problem is that mechanize demands
> -> well formed HTML including the nesting.  They probably have
> -> form fields outside of a form tag, which the browsers tolerate
> -> and just move forward.  Another variant of this problem is
> -> the location of submit buttons and multiple start of form
> -> tags.  https://www.bankone.com/ has two start form tags
> -> and only one close form tag.  I've submitted problem reports
> -> every 3 months for the last year and they still haven't
> -> fixed it.  I finally used beautiful soup to replace the
> -> form parsing in mechanize with something a little more
> -> tolerant.   I'm not sure if titus would like a patch
> -> to include that tolerance in twill or not.
> -> 
> -> HTH,
> -> William.
> 
> please yes!

OK, I'll have to look at this when I get home from work, I
probably will need to adapt it for twill's use.  I can't
recall if I fully implemented the ClientForm functionality
or just a subset.  Will let you know.

Cheers,
William.