- From: Elliotte Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 07:21:28 -0800
- To: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Cc: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>, "Henry S. Thompson" <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>, noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com, Dean Edridge <dean@dean.org.nz>, public-html <public-html@w3.org>, www-tag@w3.org
Maciej Stachowiak wrote: > And finally, in my experience, it is not necessarily even true that the > error handling of HTML makes it harder to implement parsing than for > XML. In WebKit, the pieces of code implementing HTML and XML parsing are > close to the same size, and that is not even including the libxml > library that does most of the heavy lifting in XML parsing. But is WebKit already fully implementing the HTML 5 parsing algorithm? That is what I suspect is going to complexify parsers beyond plausibility. -- Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo@metalab.unc.edu Refactoring HTML Just Published! http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0321503635/ref=nosim/cafeaulaitA
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