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Re: Feedback on XML content sink plans: msg#00051

Subject: Re: Feedback on XML content sink plans
On Mon, 12 Jun 2006, Boris Zbarsky wrote:
>
> Henri Sivonen wrote:
> > Second, spreading the use of SinkContext would make it more entrenched 
> > and would probably raise the barrier of getting the eight-year-old 
> > HTML parser/sink combo replaced with a line-by-line implementation of 
> > the HTML5 parsing spec. And the more I read the code, the more I'd 
> > like to see an HTML5-compliant rewrite.
> 
> As long as we're sure the HTML5 thing won't break any sites... ;)

I'm still working on verifying this. Please do not implement HTML5's 
parsing model yet. However, I would like all browsers to converge in due 
course, and that likely will involve a rewrite of the parser, so it's not 
a bad idea to get things ready for that. :-)

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