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I think most implementations just use regexs to extract the discovery
information, since parsing html is hard, especially when it's not valid.<br>
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<pre wrap="">This is not only a latency issue: Parsing HTML correctly is quite
hard, because HTML code is often non-standard compliant. HTML
discovery potentially hurts interoperability, since HTML clients are
generally not interchangeable.
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 10:12 AM, Allen Tom<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:atom@yahoo-inc.com"><atom@yahoo-inc.com></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Another problem is that the entire page needs to be downloaded in order to
parse it, which is problematic since many pages are very heavyweight.
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