[Python-Dev] HTMLParser and HTML5

[Stefan Behnel]

Joao S. O. Bueno, 29.07.2011 13:22:
> On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 1:37 AM, Stefan Behnel 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.

Well, you can easily prove me wrong by implementing this.

Stefan