[Python-Dev] cpython (2.7): #14538: HTMLParser can now parse correctly start tags that contain a bare /.

[Fred Drake]

On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 2:34 PM, Benjamin Peterson <benjamin at python.org> wrote:
> There is in the since that you can follow the HTML5 algorithm, which
> can "parse" any junk you throw at it.

This whole can of worms is why I gave up on HTML years ago (well, one
reason among many).

There are markup languages, and there's soup.


  -Fred

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Fred L. Drake, Jr.    <fdrake at acm.org>
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