Subject: Re: HTML parser?
From: rpw3@rigden.engr.sgi.com (Rob Warnock)
Date: 1997/12/16
Newsgroups: comp.lang.scheme
Message-ID: <674qeb$4gl1g@fido.asd.sgi.com>

Ketil Z Malde  <ketil@ii.uib.no> wrote:
+---------------
| If you use a validating parser (nsgmls), it will handle errors in the
| HTML source, so it should be a non-issue.  Unless, of course, you want
| to be able to handle errors in a gracefullish (it is, of course,
| impossible to handle graceless code in a completely graceful way) manner. 
+---------------

But one *must* at least (silently) "do the right thing" with some of the
more common illegal nestings, e.g., stuff like "<I><B>some text</I></B>".
Crud like that is seen all too often...


-Rob

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