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Re: generating DOM from ill-formed HTML docs

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• Subject: Re: generating DOM from ill-formed HTML docs
• From: Joe English <jenglish@f...>
• Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 12:15:47 -0700
• In-reply-to: <NDBBLNCOMCPLKABNJBLKOEPPGAAA.ramin@w...>
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Ramin Firoozye wrote:

> A couple of years ago, we tried to write a single-pass combo XML/HTML parser
> for a product we were working on. Again, it was a total *nightmare* with
> daily 'exception' reports. The engineer working on it wasn't too thrilled
> about having to rewrite the YACC grammar on a weekly basis--

That was probably the principal cause of your difficulties :-)

YACC is not the right tool for parsing any member of the
SGML family of languages, especially mutant species like
HTML-as-practiced.


--Joe English

  jenglish@f...

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