John Resig - Pure JavaScript HTML Parser
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Bookmark History
Saved by 9 people (1 private), first by anonymouse user on 2008-05-05
- Danieljomphe on 2008-05-19 - Tags programming , javascript , html , parser
- Junkie on 2008-05-12 - Tags html , javascript , parser
- Benxshen on 2008-05-08 - Tags javascript , parser , html
- Smoody on 2008-05-07 - Tags javascript , parser , html , 5star
- Country on 2008-05-06 - Tags javascript , html , parser
Public Sticky notes
I've been toying with the ability to port env.js to other platforms (Spidermonkey derivatives and the ECMAScript 4 Reference Implementation) and if I were to do so I would need an HTML parser. Because of this fact it became easiest to just write an HTML parser in pure JavaScript.
I did some digging to see what people had previously built, but the landscape was pretty bleak. The only one that I could find was one made by Erik Arvidsson - a simple SAX-style HTML parser. Considering that this contained only the most basic parsing - and none of the actual, complicated, HTML logic there was still a lot of work left to be done.
(I also contemplated porting the HTML 5 parser, wholesale, but that seemed like a herculean effort.)
However, the result is one that I'm quite pleased with. It won't match the compliance of html5lib, nor the speed of a pure XML parser, but it's able to get the job done with little fuss - while still being highly portable.
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