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  • I've used XML::LibXML in HTML mode. It'll be far faster, and when you wrap it with the xsh language, it's even better (and xsh version 2.0 is getting some very neat features).
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    • Randal L. Schwartz
    • Stonehenge

    • libxml2’s HTML mode is lenient, but not very lenient. It’s not that hard to make it choke. For processing your own stuff (or for generally markup-sparse things like weblog posts or comments or such) it’s fine, but out there on the open web it doesn’t cut it.

      I prefer using HTMLTidy to beat things into shape, configured to give me XHTML, which I can then parse with a strict XML parser.

      TagSoup also works. (Someone should port that one to Perl and/or C…)

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