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   Message 844 of 2,753   
   Oliver Hunt to All   
   Re: Parsing HTML : I would appreciate ad   
   15 Nov 06 15:21:02   
   
   From: ojh16@student.canterbury.ac.nz   
      
   Just for the record i'd like to point out that HTML is *not* xml.  It   
   isn't just a matter of most websites not being well formed -- the   
   HTML spec itself is not XML compliant.   
      
   For generated data you might be able to get away with an xml parser,   
   but there are a few html tags that aren't xml at all (they have no   
   closing tag, and using one is actually invalid html).  So valid HTML   
   can break any standard XML parser.   
      
   --Oliver   
      
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