Re: [xml] Adding default DOCTYPE when HTML document doesn't have any

[Damian Pietras <daper daper net>]

On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 01:57:16PM +0200, Daniel Veillard wrote:
>   Hum,
>
> this is added automatically at the end of htmlParseDocument() if no
> doctype was found, and until now there is no option to turn this off.
>
> Since this is an arbitrary behaviour from libxml2, and while this can
> be fixed (by finding and removing said DTD from the resulting tree),
> I think it's best to provide a new HTML_PARSE_NODEFDTD parsing option
> for the HTML parser to avoid this. The code is actually fairly simple,
> I'm attaching the patch I will commit soon,

Such option will be really useful for me, thanks!

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