[lxml-dev] html5lib tree builder in lxml 2.2

[Stefan Behnel]

Geoffrey Sneddon wrote:
> On 25 Mar 2009, at 21:44, Stefan Behnel wrote:
> 
>>> Would it be possible to get a
>>> patch for html5lib that would fix these issues (this'll need to be under
>>> the MIT license)?
>>
>> It's mainly about stuff that ET doesn't support, such as the DOCTYPE, or
>> top-level comments. I don't know if the html5lib project is interested in
>> that, but it shouldn't be too hard to add some conditional lxml specifics
>> to their code.
> 
> There is already a whole separate lxml treebuilder in html5lib.

Ah, interesting. I assume it just wasn't there at the time.


> I'm in
> part wondering why that wasn't used verbatim, and if there are any
> issues with it fixed in lxml 2.2's treebuilder that a patch be made
> available under licensing terms acceptable to html5lib (I'd probably
> look more closely to see quite what was changed if I could actually copy
> changes safely with the licensing being such).

Come on, lxml is BSD licensed. If html5lib is MIT licensed, I doubt that
anyone would be mad enough to put hope into suing you if you edit a file in
one while taking a glimpse at the other.

>From a quick look, it actually seems like the "etree_lxml" tree builder in
html5lib has learned from the one in lxml.html already. So, please give it
a review if you can. I wouldn't mind simply importing the html5lib one in
lxml.html.html5parser if it's available.

Stefan