#30686: Improve utils.text.Truncator &co to use a full HTML parser.
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Reporter: Thomas Hooper | Owner: nobody
Type: Bug | Status: new
Component: Utilities | Version: master
Severity: Normal | Resolution:
Keywords: | Triage Stage: Accepted
Has patch: 0 | Needs documentation: 0
Needs tests: 0 | Patch needs improvement: 0
Easy pickings: 0 | UI/UX: 0
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Comment (by Carlton Gibson):
Yep Claude, absolutely.
I think there's two difficulties we could face:
* trying to successfully sanitize HTML with regexes.
* (Help) Make sure html5lib-python is maintained.
The first of these is intractable. The second not. 🙂
I've put out some feelers to try and find out more.
* This is pressing for Python and pip **now**, not for us for a while yet.
* If we look at https://github.com/html5lib/html5lib-python/issues/361 it
seems there's some money on the table from tidelift potentially.
* We COULD allocate some time in a pinch I think.
* AND it's **just** a wrapper around the underlying C library, so whilst
20 months seems a long time, I'm not sure the release cadence is really an
issue.
BUT, yes, absolutely. Let's hammer this out properly before we commit. 👍
I will open a mailing list thread when I know more.
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