From: Brian Candler <B.Candler@...>
Date: 2007-04-14T04:05:34+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] ClothRed 0.3.0 released

On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 01:24:02AM +0900, Phillip Gawlowski wrote:
> >I think the suggestion of using a HTML parser (like Hpricot) to do
> >this conversion will impose itself pretty soon.
> 
> Probably, but I'll have to play with Hpricot first, to see if it can do 
> what is needed (after a short skim, it allows to convert HTML4 into 
> XHTML1.0, which will make it easier). Trouble is, I want ClothRed as 
> dependency free as I can.

I think what you're going to find is, parsing tag-soup HTML is harder than
you think - especially if your goal with ClothRed is to parse *arbitrary*
tag-soup HTML from arbitrary sources.