From: Bill Kelly Date: 2001-10-15T16:44:07+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:22552] Re: extracting from delimited text files From: "Tobias Reif" > > Bill Kelly wrote: > > > > (Also, sometimes the user might not be able to tweak the data- we > > have an HTML parser that's more of an XML parser at heart - doesn't > > deal with "optional closing tags" like HTML does - but, we're the > > ones in control of all HTML produced that needs to be parsed by > > that parser - > > > Try XHTML ;) Good idea. :-) We stuck with pure HTML (but a subset of it) for, I guess, 'historical' reasons (a lot of XSL that already produced it.) Thanks, Bill