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Yeah, this is a bug :/
It won't be fixed easily because of #37
But at least we are half way there https://github.com/philss/floki/projects/2

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Do you mean that the mochiweb is too fragile to fix, and a brand new parser is on the way?

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@derek-zhou It's not that is too fragile, but I think the HTML parsing state machine is too damn complicated to fix when the parser never followed the specs 😅

I plan to finish the built-in parser one day. But in the meanwhile, I suggest you to give it a try to the html5ever parser https://github.com/philss/floki#using-html5ever-as-the-html-parser, now that comes with precompiled NIFs (you don't need Rust to use it anymore).

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I am not afraid of a little of rust tool chain. However, I need to do some ad-hoc XML parsing in the same application and I am afraid if the html5ever parser could be too strict on things.

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@derek-zhou I see. You can use both if you need. Just pass the parser as an option to parse_document.

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