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Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> How about xql.el?  XQL seems to be a fairly simple way to get stuff
> from XML documents, and one would `only' have to normalize the HTML so
> that it is valid HTML.

w3 parses HTML very well; almost no matter how broken, w3 will give
out reasonable results.

The problem with HTML is that the elements are basically meaningless.
Finding out what's what ("Is this number the number of articles in the 
topic or the number of authors?") is what is difficult.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen