[Python-Dev] HTMLParser and HTML5 (original) (raw)

Stefan Behnel stefan_ml at behnel.de
Fri Jul 29 06:37:17 CEST 2011

Brett Cannon, 28.07.2011 23:49:

On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 11:25, Matt wrote:

- What policies are in place for keeping parity with other HTML parsers (such as those in web browsers)? There aren't any beyond "it would be nice". [...] It's more of an issue of someone caring enough to do the coding work to bring the parser up to spec for HTML5 (or introduce new code to live beside the HTML4 parsing code).

Which, given that html5lib readily exists, would likely be a lot more work than anyone who is interested in HTML5 handling would want to invest.

I don't think we need a new HTML5 parsing implementation only to have it in the stdlib. That's the old sunny Java way of doing it.

Stefan

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