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Author	momat
Recipients	georg.brandl, momat
Date	2009年06月04日.21:36:29
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It depends whether you want a HTMLParser to be an useful tool that can deal with real world HTML or just a toy without practical meaning. Crashing on every little deviation from the standard, where more relaxed approach is possible, doesn't sound to me as a reasonable choice. Maybe guess is not a proper word... If the standard strict approach fails, the parser should fall back to a less strict one in an attempt to actually parse the document. Throwing an exception and giving up is just not good enough. Can we have somebody else commenting on this one please?

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It depends whether you want a HTMLParser to be an useful tool that can
deal with real world HTML or just a toy without practical meaning.
Crashing on every little deviation from the standard, where more relaxed
approach is possible, doesn't sound to me as a reasonable choice.
Maybe guess is not a proper word... If the standard strict approach
fails, the parser should fall back to a less strict one in an attempt to
actually parse the document. Throwing an exception and giving up is just
not good enough.
Can we have somebody else commenting on this one please?

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Date	User	Action	Args
2009年06月04日 21:36:34	momat	set	recipients: + momat, georg.brandl
2009年06月04日 21:36:33	momat	set	messageid: <1244151393.63.0.110728527881.issue6191@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2009年06月04日 21:36:31	momat	link	issue6191 messages
2009年06月04日 21:36:30	momat	create

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