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I haven't used tagsoup, but I believe that is the point; it was designed to let you scrape data from badly formed HTML you got from somewhere else, rather than

by PaulAJ 11y ago

I haven't used tagsoup, but I believe that is the point; it was designed to let you scrape data from badly formed HTML you got from somewhere else, rather than helpfully pointing out the broken tags.

gsnedders 11y ago
The HTML spec defines how to parse any arbitrary stream of characters, and it is what is implemented in browsers and hence is what best supports badly-formed HTML (because it's typically written aimed at browsers!). Therefore, by not following the spec, TagSoup has worse compatibility with badly-formed HTML.