Re: [xml] Apparently incorrect paragraph wrapping in HTML parser

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 10:00:40PM +0000, James Bursa wrote:
> On Wednesday 11 January 2006 17:59, iSteve wrote:
> > Daniel Veillard said (on IRC, though not on this mailing list) that he's
> > waiting for feedback about how to fix this issue.
> >
> > I for myself have to say I'd remove it completely; I do not think it is
> > reasonable to have the document altered by the parser in first place;
> > I've found some more issues with it in the mailing list, too.
> > (http://mail.gnome.org/archives/xml/2002-October/msg00047.html)
> >
> > Since DV didn't ask himself -- it is after all me who wants this bug
> > fixed -- I have to ask: what do all of you think about it? Any
> > suggestions how it should be resolved?
>
> We use the HTML parser in NetSurf, a browser (http://netsurf.sourceforge.net/).

  heh, good to know :-)

> We're happy with the current behaviour of the parser (which isn't what you
> describe in your original message in the latest version). I agree that the
> parser mostly shouldn't alter the document, although the current behaviour of
> inserting implied html, head, and body is useful.
>
> I'd prefer if the parsing was not affected by the Doctype, because it's mostly
> meaningless on the web.

  point taken ! Thanks for the feedback !

Daniel

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