[issue14538] HTMLParser: parsing error

[Jim Jewett]

Jim Jewett <jimjjewett at gmail.com> added the comment:

On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 7:26 PM, Ezio Melotti wrote:
> If HTMLParser doesn't parse as the HTML5 specs say,
> then it's considered a bug.

I had thought that was the goal of the html5lib, and that HTMLParser
was explicitly aiming at a much reduced model in order to remain
simple.  (And also because the HTML5 spec is still changing fairly
often, particularly compared to the lifecycle of a feature release of
python.)

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