Changes to static functions about html2text

[soundasleep]

It sounds like it's loading a different DTD (XHTML instead of HTML5 or something) or encoding. Could you post the HTML file you're trying to translate? Perhaps you can try minimise the HTML file to the smallest file that creates these errors?

[feelsickened]

Thanks for the prompt response - The HTML was from this article: http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/computers/gadgets-on-the-go/getflix-offers-the-best-of-both-worlds-20150406-1mf3aa.html
What I did encoding wise - and what I did before putting that article into HTML2TEXT - I'll shed light on momentarily for you.

[feelsickened]

Very sorry for delay in providing proper issue details to you.

I am running the following:
$article_URL = (example provided above) http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/computers/gadgets-on-the-go/getflix-offers-the-best-of-both-worlds-20150406-1mf3aa.html
$webpage_html_object = new DOMDocument();
$webpage_html_object->loadHTMLFile($article_URL);
$body = $webpage_html_object->getElementsByTagName('body');
if ( $body && 0<$body->length ) {
$body = $body->item(0);
$webpage_body_html_string = $webpage_html_object->savehtml();
}
Then:
$as_plaintext = convert_html_to_text($webpage_body_html_string);

At one time I used, but have since commented out this line in preference of the above:
$webpage_body_html_string = $webpage_html_object->savehtml($body);

[soundasleep]

It looks like the HTML is invalid, so similar to issue #10. Maybe we can look at adding an option to ignore invalid HTML warnings...

What happens if you parse the HTML directly?

$as_plaintext = convert_html_to_text(file_get_contents("http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/computers/gadgets-on-the-go/getflix-offers-the-best-of-both-worlds-20150406-1mf3aa.html"));

[feelsickened]

okay trying that returns more issues:
Warning: DOMDocument::loadHTML() [domdocument.loadhtml]: htmlParseEntityRef: expecting ';' in Entity, line: 151 in /home/content/20/10935220/html/engineroom/assets/src/Html2Text.php on line 40

Warning: DOMDocument::loadHTML() [domdocument.loadhtml]: htmlParseEntityRef: expecting ';' in Entity, line: 154 in /home/content/20/10935220/html/engineroom/assets/src/Html2Text.php on line 40

Warning: DOMDocument::loadHTML() [domdocument.loadhtml]: htmlParseEntityRef: expecting ';' in Entity, line: 157 in /home/content/20/10935220/html/engineroom/assets/src/Html2Text.php on line 40

Warning: DOMDocument::loadHTML() [domdocument.loadhtml]: htmlParseEntityRef: expecting ';' in Entity, line: 160 in /home/content/20/10935220/html/engineroom/assets/src/Html2Text.php on line 40

Warning: DOMDocument::loadHTML() [domdocument.loadhtml]: htmlParseEntityRef: expecting ';' in Entity, line: 166 in /home/content/20/10935220/html/engineroom/assets/src/Html2Text.php on line 40

I don't have any problems with a slightly older version of your html2text script -

[twogood]

If you have invalid HTML I recommend running it through Tidy first.