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Re: HTML/XML parser




> What are the chances that html on the net will get better as time goes on?

Ehm, I think those chances are practically zero. HTML is not getting simpler
with all these extensions (not to mention CSS). 

> If it's good then we could have the parser get feed html directly and if
> it encounters bad html it could pass it to a 'Less effienct' 'bad html
> parser'..

I don't think that, even with a two-pass parser, the bottleneck as
far as speed is concerned is going to be in the parser. And in the end
I have to send correct HTML to the display anyhow.

Kasper