Re: Linking Emacs with libxml2

[Lennart Borgman]

On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 11:08 PM, Stefan Monnier
<address@hidden> wrote:
>> Apparently libxml2 comes with a parser for "real world" HTML, which is
>> very intriguing:
> [...]
>> Has this been discussed before and rejected?  It seems like an obvious
>> idea, and would enable both easier extraction of data from HTML files,
>> as well as writing a (simple) HTML renderer in Emacs Lisp.
>
> It's an obvious idea, but I think it's a fair bit of work:
> - you'll probably want your function to be able to read from a buffer
>  rather than from a file (reading from a file would slow down the
>  operation to a point where using a separate xml-to-elisp executable
>  isn't that much worse).
> - parsing HTML is the easy part, rendering it in Emacs is a lot
>  more difficult.


But perhaps can libxml2 be used by semantic?

Though I do not know if that is interesting.