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shr mangling messages

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From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz <at> lifelogs.com>
To: Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>
Cc: larsi <at> gnus.org, 24831 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, yamaoka <at> jpl.org, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
Subject: bug#24831: shr mangling messages
Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2016 14:18:03 -0400

On Tue, 01 Nov 2016 13:16:52 -0400 Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org> wrote: 

>> Another idea would be first run it through a validator.
>> If valid, proceed as before.
>> If invalid, just spew out all the text nodes of the whole document,
>> separated by spaces.

RS> Do we have a validator in Emacs Lisp?  Or would we run one as a child?
RS> What program is available?

IMHO validation is not a workable solution, both because of complexity
and because real-world HTML authors are incredibly skilled at writing
broken HTML that somehow renders in the browsers they support.

Ted

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