Re: XHTML character entity support from James Graham on 2009-11-13 (public-html@w3.org from November 2009)

From: James Graham <jgraham@opera.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:00:08 +0100
To: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
CC: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
Message-ID: <4AFD4A48.7040704@opera.com>

John Cowan wrote:
> James Graham scripsit:
> 
>> Note that Anne did some work in this area already:
> 
> That's interesting, although a little crude: some people at Extreme Markup
> some years back presented a much cleverer algorithm for schemaless tag
> recovery, given a tree to work with.  Unfortunately, the archives seem to be
> offline.
> 

I would be interested in seeing that, if you can dig up some kind of 
reference.

Note that a requirement is that the algorithm not need to use lookahead; 
it must be possible to implement an incremental, error handling, parser.

Received on Friday, 13 November 2009 11:59:56 UTC