[whatwg] HTML 5 and PHP

[James Graham]

Keryx Web wrote:
> Ian Hickson wrote: 
>> Now that the HTML5 specification has a very clear HTML parser 
>> specification, it would be relatively simple for someone to write an 
>> HTML5 parser in PHP which can then be used with the XML pipeline. This 
>> has already been done with Python, for instance:
>>
>>    http://code.google.com/p/html5lib/
>>
>> The above project also provides a number of test cases:
>>
>>    http://html5lib.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/tests/
>>
>> ...that can be a huge help to any parser implementation project.
> 
> Although I am quite sure we are going to see some activity concerning 
> (X)HTML 5 on PECL soon, the option of using native XML methods still 
> appeal very much to me.

The idea of html5lib is that you can continue to use whatever XML tools 
you like on the backend; you just don't use them for the actual parsing 
step. In this vein html5lib supports three main XML implementations for 
python; elementtree, minidom and SAX.


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