str="<div id=\"1\" style='display:none;'>
<pre class=\"prettyprint lang-mma\">
<pre class=\"Input\" style=\"white-space:nowrap; padding-left:50px; background-color:#FF359A;\">
<code>
`varCode`
</code>
</pre>
</pre>
</div>";
xml1 = ImportString[str, "XML"]
(*
XMLObject[Document][{},XMLElement[div,{id->1,style->display:none;},{XMLElement[pre,{class-
>prettyprint lang-mma},{XMLElement[pre,{class->Input,style->white-space:nowrap; padding-le
ft:50px; background-color:#FF359A;},{XMLElement[code,{},{`varCode`}]}]}]}],{}]
*)
We can see the two pre tags are nested, and the result is as expected.
html = ExportString[xml1[[2]], "HTMLFragment"];
Import[Export["test.html", html, "Text"], "XML"]
(*
<div id="1" style="display:none;"><pre class="prettyprint lang-mma"><pre class="Input" sty
le="white-space:nowrap; padding-left:50px; background-color:#FF359A;"><code>`varCode`</cod
e></pre></pre></div>
*)
Note
In this method of Importing html, two pre tags are not nested.
Import[Export["test.html", html, "Text"], "XMLObject"]
(*
XMLObject[Document][{XMLObject[Declaration][Version->1.0,Standalone->yes]},XMLElement[html
,{version->-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN,{http://www.w3.org/2000/xmlns/,xmlns}->h
ttp://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml},{XMLElement[body,{},{XMLElement[div,{id->1,style->display:non
e;},{XMLElement[pre,{class->prettyprint lang-mma},{}],XMLElement[pre,{class->Input,style->
white-space:nowrap; padding-left:50px; background-color:#FF359A;},{XMLElement[code,{},{`va
rCode`}]}]}]}]}],{}]
*)
Why using XMLObject? more robust than XML, here is an example, and here is another example.
Many times, Import as XML failed.
My question is why XMLObject is different with XML, and how to Import the HTML file as Nested tags.
Is this a bug or some feature of XMLObject?
