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Re:Ask HN: How to aggregate product info from other websites by DenisM on Sunday November 09, 2008 @10:26PM (#358822)
Uhm. I though any valid HTML is also valid SGML? Are you sure you're not confusing it with XML markup?
Re:Ask HN: How to aggregate product info from other websites by ryanwaggoner on Sunday November 09, 2008 @10:32PM (#358826)
I think he's saying that the HTML-parsing approach only works when the HTML is well-formed and for most sites, it isn't.