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

[Karl Dubost <karl w3 org>]

Le 20 août 2008 à 23:34, Andi Sidwell a écrit :
> FWIW, I've spent the summer working on a C HTML5 parser which is
> approaching stability, called Hubbub[1].  It's about as half as fast  
> as
> libxml2 at parsing the HTML 5 spec with an O(1) treebuilder, and it's
> fairly easy to bind to the libxml2 interfaces (and is being used in  
> lieu
> of the libxml2 HTML parser in a small Web browser, NetSurf[2], in the
> development branch).  Note it's a) not buildable as a shared library  
> or
> b) had a formal release, but if someone wants an HTML5 parser in C,  
> then
> it's probably not a bad bet.

excellent news. The HTML 5 Spec authorizes more than the usual event  
of parsing by retrospectively modifying the tree (ala tidy), I wonder  
how much it would require modification in libxml2 and if indeed it is  
a better strategy to make an interface than directing including the  
code in the library.


> [1] http://www.netsurf-browser.org/projects/hubbub/
> [2] http://www.netsurf-browser.org/

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