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Re:State of the Haskell ecosystem by PaulAJ on Monday August 17, 2015 @12:41PM (#10074255)
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.
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Re:State of the Haskell ecosystem by gsnedders on Monday August 17, 2015 @03:49PM (#10075617)
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.
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