Re: [Htmlparser-user] Lexer differences between 1.4 and 1.6

[Derrick O. <Der...@Ro...>]

No, sorry, there is no 'backwards compatibility' switch.

Vincent Mallet wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I have some code that uses htmlparser 1.4 and  I am looking at
>upgrading it to the latest 1.6 integration build. However, I am seeing
>differences in the way the input is processed that make the work more
>difficult.
>
>Given the input (note it's missing a quote):
>Hello <a href="http://www.foo.com>World</a>
>
>With htmlparser 1.4, I get the following nodes:
>Text: Hello
>Begin tag: a href="http://www.foo.com"
>Text: World
>End tag: a
>
>With htmlparser 1.6, I get these:
>Text: Hello
>LinkTag: link to http://www.foo.com>link</a>
>
>The 1.6 behavior makes error recovery a lot more difficult. Is there a
>way to have 1.6 behave like 1.4 in this case?
>
>Thanks for your help,
>
>    Vince.
>
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