Re: Html parsing and inline elements

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Marcelo Zabani <mzabani(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Html parsing and inline elements
Date: 2016-04-29 20:47:20
Message-ID: 20160429204720.GB26364@momjian.us
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On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 12:57:19PM -0300, Marcelo Zabani wrote:
> Hi, Tom,
>
> You're right, I don't think one can argue that the default parser should know
> HTML.
> How about your suggestion of there being an HTML parser, is it feasible? I ask
> this because I think that a lot of people store HTML documents these days, and
> although there probably aren't lots of HTML with words written along multiple
> inline elements, it would certainly be nice to have a proper parser for these
> use cases.
>
> What do you think?

It sounds useful.

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