Re: [xml] htmlDocDumpMemory() vs xmlDocDumpMemory()

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 11:25:14AM +0100, Julien Chaffraix wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Sorry for not catching this in the first place.

  np :-)

> >  Now an HTML parser should make no difference between <br /> and
> > <br>, that's why it's suggested to serialize XHTML that way.
> >
> >  The behaviour you mention sounds like a bug in my opinion, <br />
> > should be safe for both kind of parsing, except if internally Safari
> > loads as XML , reserialize as <br></br> and then hands this to the
> > HTML parser, I don't see any other logical way to achieve what you got.
> 
> No, we avoid moving documents from one parser to another. We determine
> the document type using different methods (content-type header,
> extension ...) and then use either the XML parser that uses libxml2 or
> our own HTML parser.

  Okay, I was just trying to guess how it came to that result, thanks
for the explanations !

Daniel

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