Re: [xml] Cleaning the Web - Implementing HTML 5 parsing in libxml2

[Michael Day <mikeday yeslogic com>]

Hi Daniel,

>   I know that some people like Michael Day rely heavilly on the HTML
> parser behaviour, and would very much like to hear from them too, as
> the change would have more impact on them than me. I know the Webkit 
> project uses libxml2 but only for parsing XML, and wonder if an HTML5
> compliant parser in libxml2 might change this or not. Even if this
> wasn't the case I would like to see HTML5 suport in, but being able
> to assert possible impact like this would be nice.

We do use the libxml2 HTML parser in our Prince formatter, and it works 
very nicely. It does have limitations when it comes to "tag soup" HTML 
and browser compatibility, and ideally these could be solved by 
following the HTML5 specification, without affecting the current 
behaviour for valid documents.

In summary: it would be great if libxml2 was also a HTML5 parser!

Is anyone available to implement it? :)

Best regards,

Michael

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