Re: Linking Emacs with libxml2

[Eric M. Ludlam]

Hi,

Sorry for the late reply.

The Semantic parser is a cheap regexp matcher that just looks for titles 
and <Hx> lines so things like Speedbar can show a high-level overview of 
your text.

It would be much better to use a real parser if one is available to 
provide to have that info in one place.

Eric

On 09/06/2010 03:19 PM, Chong Yidong wrote:
> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen<address@hidden>  writes:
>
> > Apparently libxml2 comes with a parser for "real world" HTML, which is
> > very intriguing:
> >
> > http://www.xmlsoft.org/html/libxml-HTMLparser.html
> >
> > If Emacs provided a native interface to this function, we could say
> >
> > (parse-html "file.html")
> > =>  (:html (:head ...) (:body ...))
> >
> > and get a nice parse tree out very fast.  (Parsing HTML from Emacs Lisp
> > is rather slow.)
>
> Semantic already has a HTML parser, but I don't know how usable it is
> for the purposes of writing a renderer.