On Tue, 2013-04-02 at 09:06 +0200, Amandine Piguel wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I would like to know if libxml2 is able to parse HTML5 files, and if
> not, if it will be supported in the futur.
Note, libxml's HTML parser is really good at making sense of HTML input,
but it is not a formal HTML parser - the tree you get is not guaranteed
to be the same as the one a Web browser would make, and even with HTML 4
there are differences, e.g. in when a "tbody" element is inferred. This
isn't a bad thing - often it's exactly what you want.
I'd guess that patches to provide an option to use the HTML 5 parsing
algorithm would be plausible.
Example: try the following input, and compare with a Web browser in the
DOM...
<body>
<table><th>a</th><td>b</td>
</body>
Again, this isn't saying anything bad about libxml - I'm trying to give
examples so you can understand what it's doing. I don't actually know of
a good HTML 5 parser that can replace libxml2; I don't follow these
things, and in any case I'd rather see it folded into libxml2 in some
way I think.
Liam
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