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Subject: [Edbrowse-dev]   html parser and whitespace in tag names
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> <a href="some_url">
> <p>
> link text goes here.
> </p>
> </a>

Yes this did not work because I was trying to be clever.
Some tags in the text I thought should close the open anchor,
if there was an open anchor.
I was really thinking about this.

<P>
<A>
link text
</P>
</A>

Should the </P> close the anchor?
Does it really matter?

There's so much improper html out there it makes my head spin.
I tried to anticipate some of this and I think
I did more harm than good.
The latest push just comments out some code,
in html.c from 1810 to 1828.
#if 0
#endif
Code no longer being used.
I didn't delete the code cause I don't know
maybe it still might be used in some fashion.
If I think it's worthless in a couple months I'll delete it
and some other code that supports it.

All this makes me wonder again if I should be parsing html at all,
or if there isn't some code out there that would do it for me,
and turn it into a tree of nodes, and I could just work with that.
Let somebody else worry about all this "is it nested properly" html crap.
Trying to leverage more open source libraries.
I was going to play with xidel but haven't got round to it.

Karl Dahlke