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26.0.91; xml-parse-region works but libxml-parse-html-region doesn't

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka <at> jpl.org>
Cc: 30789 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
Subject: bug#30789: 26.0.91; xml-parse-region works but libxml-parse-html-region doesn't
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2018 01:44:22 +0100

Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka <at> jpl.org> writes:

> When I read the mail using Gnus + shr, the text after the broken
> point is all cut off.  That is what libxml-parse-html-region does,
> whereas xml-parse-region doesn't cut it.  Moreover a web browser,
> to which I send the html data using the `K H' command, shows all
> the text (the broken character is shown as is, though).
>
> This is not necessarily a libxml bug anyway, but I hope it works
> like xml-parse.

libxml is more strict about correctness of the input than most other
HTML parsers.  I don't think there's anything we can do about this
problematic input other than ponder whether Emacs should use a different
HTML parser, which I think sounds of unlikely.  :-)

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