Re: master 568f148: Make eww more liberal when interpreting some invalid HTML

Re: master 568f148: Make eww more liberal when interpreting some invalid HTML

[Robert Pluim]

>>>>> On Sat, 14 Sep 2019 10:10:29 -0400 (EDT), larsi@gnus.org (Lars Ingebrigtsen) said:

    Lars> branch: master
    Lars> commit 568f1488a69e8cb0961571ff8f158df8891c3c44
    Lars> Author: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
    Lars> Commit: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>

    Lars>     Make eww more liberal when interpreting some invalid HTML
    
    Lars>     * lisp/net/eww.el (eww--preprocess-html): New function (bug#37009)
    Lars>     to be more lenient with invalid HTML and translate common invalid
    Lars>     HTML like "a <= b" into "a &lt;= b" to be more liberal in what we
    Lars>     accept before parsing.
    Lars>     (eww-display-html): Use it.
    Lars>     (eww-readable): Ditto.

If weʼre going to do this for '<', we should probably do it for '>' as
well.

Robert

Re: master 568f148: Make eww more liberal when interpreting some invalid HTML

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> writes:

> If weʼre going to do this for '<', we should probably do it for '>' as
> well.

libxml2 parses free-standing > characters as &gt;, so there's nothing we
need to do.

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