[Web-SIG] HTML parsers and DOM; WWW::Mechanize work-alike

[John J Lee]

On Tue, 2 Dec 2003, Simon Willison wrote:
[...]
> Is there any way we could get a DOM tree from invalid HTML using pure
> Python tools? The HTML tools in the Python standard library at the
[...]

No chance.  A lot of work has gone into HTMLTidy / tidylib, reimplementing
it would be a lot of work for little benefit.


John