Ian Hickson wrote:
On Sat, 2 Dec 2006, Elliotte Harold wrote:
Secondly, anyone who actually tried to use an SGML parser to handle HTML
rapidly hit a wall since most HTML documents were not even close to
actually conformant to the SGML spec or the HTML DTD.
Exactly. And the *exact same situation* exists today with XML.
Anyone who actually ties to use an XML parser to handle HTML rapidly hits
a wall, since most HTML documents are not even close to actually
conformant to the HTML or XML specs. Even if we were to require that HTML5
documents use exactly XML syntax, this would still be the case.
Well, no. I do use XML parsers to process HTML documents on a regular
basis. I don't do it for all documents, but I profitably do it for quite
a few. As long as it's possible to make the documents well-formed, it's
possible to parse them with an XML parser because they are XML.
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