Fwd: Re: [Web-SIG] Client-side support: what are we aiming for?
Bill Janssen
janssen at parc.com
Fri Oct 24 18:23:54 EDT 2003
> The parsing doesn't have to be very intelligent or do validation, HTML
> syntax is fairly simple.
Successfully parsing HTML is incredibly complex, because of the
variations in the various standards.
> I think that does belong in the standard library.
I agree, the ability should be there. My sense is that the existing
XML packages do pretty well in handling both XHTML and HTML; the
missing pieces are the ancillary standards, like CSS and Javascript.
Bill
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