[Python-Dev] HTMLParser and HTML5

[Joao S. O. Bueno]

On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 1:37 AM, Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml at behnel.de> wrote:
> Brett Cannon, 28.07.2011 23:49:
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 11:25, Matt wrote:
>>>
>>> - What policies are in place for keeping parity with other HTML
>>> parsers (such as those in web browsers)?
>>
>> There aren't any beyond "it would be nice".
>> [...]
>> It's more of an issue of someone caring enough to do the coding work to
>> bring the parser up to spec for HTML5 (or introduce new code to live
>> beside
>> the HTML4 parsing code).
>
> Which, given that html5lib readily exists, would likely be a lot more work
> than anyone who is interested in HTML5 handling would want to invest.
>
> I don't think we need a new HTML5 parsing implementation only to have it in
> the stdlib. That's the old sunny Java way of doing it.
>

I disaagree.
Having proper html parsing out of the box is part of the "batteries
included" thing.
And it is not a matter of "having html 5" - as stated on this thread, fixing it
for html5 will fix it for html that exists in the "real world".

Python _has_ to work with quick 30-50 lines scripts deliverable everywhere, not
just has proper 3rd party libraries that can work as part of a huge
project using buildout.


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