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Parsing HTML with regex (lemmy.sdf.org)
submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/linuxmemes
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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

This isn't true. HTML5 made a very strict set of rules and there are a large handful of compliant parsers. But yes, you absolutely can't use an XML parser. You can't even use an XML emitter, as you can emit valid XML that means something completely different in HTML.

...what a fucking disaster. I still wish XHTML won.

[โ€“] piecat 1 points 6 months ago

Real question, why? I feel like there's a story there