- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 20:50:29 +0200
On Mar 7, 2007, at 20:14, Elliotte Harold wrote: > Once you achieve well-formedness you can begin looking at the > document in a new way. You get access to powerful tools like XPath > and XSLT that you didn't have before. I'm running XPath (and, as an implementation detail, XSLT) on text/ html documents parsed without an XML parser. > And you don't have to wait for an HTML 5 parser to do it either. > You can do it today with a large tool chain. TagSoup exists today. if Content-Type is text/html: instantiate TagSoup else: instantiate XML parser And, best of all, this doesn't require the world to change. -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen at iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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