- From: Elliotte Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2006 09:22:39 -0500
Ian Hickson wrote: > On Sat, 2 Dec 2006, Elliotte Harold wrote: >> Secondly, anyone who actually tried to use an SGML parser to handle HTML >> rapidly hit a wall since most HTML documents were not even close to >> actually conformant to the SGML spec or the HTML DTD. > > Exactly. And the *exact same situation* exists today with XML. > > Anyone who actually ties to use an XML parser to handle HTML rapidly hits > a wall, since most HTML documents are not even close to actually > conformant to the HTML or XML specs. Even if we were to require that HTML5 > documents use exactly XML syntax, this would still be the case. > Well, no. I do use XML parsers to process HTML documents on a regular basis. I don't do it for all documents, but I profitably do it for quite a few. As long as it's possible to make the documents well-formed, it's possible to parse them with an XML parser because they are XML. -- ?Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo at metalab.unc.edu Java I/O 2nd Edition Just Published! http://www.cafeaulait.org/books/javaio2/ http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0596527500/ref=nosim/cafeaulaitA/
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