[lxml-dev] Proposal: Better html5lib Support

[Armin Ronacher]

Hi,

Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml <at> behnel.de> writes:

> I do not use html5lib myself, but I'm happily taking patches if you can fix it
> up in a more convenient way.
I created a patch now: http://paste.pocoo.org/show/79376/

That however has two disadvantages.  For one it extends the lxml etree builder
in a pretty ugly way but that could probably be improved, and it also creates
etree.Comment objects and not etree.html.HtmlComments.  The same problem exists
with the soupparser, mainly because there is no way to generate HtmlComment
objects without creating a segfault.  (The only way is to use html.fromstring
with the comment there, but that's an ugly hack).


Regards,
Armin