- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Fri, 04 May 2007 12:32:08 +0200
- To: "Julian Reschke" <julian.reschke@gmx.de>, "Maciej Stachowiak" <mjs@apple.com>
- Cc: "Gareth Hay" <gazhay@gmail.com>, matt@builtfromsource.com, public-html@w3.org
On Fri, 04 May 2007 12:24:49 +0200, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> wrote: >> OK, but what's the actual harm of doing so? Can you describe it in >> words? You've said repeatedly that you think nonconforming content is >> really bad, but you haven't once explained how its existence hurts >> anyone, or how wiping it out would help anyone. >> ... > > It hurts those who want to parse HTML, but do not want to implement a > full user agent (think metadata extraction, microformats, crawling, > indexing...). A small group of people (including myself) created a small library for Python in Python to do just that: http://code.google.com/p/html5lib/ Should be pretty trivial to port it to other languages. Parsing HTML5 is one of the least complicated parts of the specification. > Now I understand that what's the well-defined HTML5 parsing is for... So > this sort of proves to me that the distinction between "conformant" and > "parseable" documents really is meaningless. -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/> <http://www.opera.com/>
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