SPUG: XPath on (less-than-perfect) HTML

[Michael R. Wolf]

On Dec 8, 2009, at 7:44 PM, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 5:43 PM, Michael R. Wolf  
> <MichaelRWolf at att.net> wrote:

[...]


>> Could the only difference be that I've got to be explicit with the  
>> XML::LibXML parser about recovering on non-well-formed input while  
>> the HTML one already (tacitly) expects non-well-formed.
>
> No personal experience, but it's not just about recovering, but
> recovering the way a browser would have interpreted the HTML.

Good point.  Thanks.  Do you know if it has a "quirks mode"?


> From the TreeBuilder POD:
>

[...]

>> -- because,

>> as Roseanne Rosannadanna once said, "it's always something".


Or, as my Dad said.  If it's not one thing, it's ... 10!


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Michael R. Wolf
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