Re: libwww-perl-5b11 still lacks my parse patches

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Hi.
[ Nick Ing-Simmons said: ]
>Sounds like difference between official BNF for a language and the .y file 
you 
>feed yacc. My feeling is that by "augmenting" the "official" DTD with 
>pragmatic "rules" (as one does .y files) one could evolve a parser...

I think a filter which took in HTML of the kind in general use and output 
HTML which would render similarly on popular Web browsers but which was 
parseable by an SGML parser would be (a) a wonderful thing, and (b) quite 
feasible.

Cheers,
Andrew.
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Andrew "SGML evangelist in hibernation" McRae   <mcrae@internet.com>

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