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Re: [xml] Parsing tag-soup HTML


Nick Kew wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Jun 2007 08:14:01 -0400
> Try running the following through "xmllint --html":
> 
> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=ascii" />
> <html lang="en">
> <head><title>foo</title></head>
> <body><h1>Hello, World</h1></body>
> </html>

In that case I would actually prefer making it a general special case rule in
the current parser to interpret a leading <meta> tag as an encoding hint to
the parser. That would add quite a portion of real-world non-HTML to the set
of parsable (i.e. fixable) documents.

Stefan
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