[Haskell-cafe] Re: Lazy HTML parsing with HXT, HaXML/polyparse, what else?

Sat May 12 09:10:42 EDT 2007

Hi,

> What results should a lazy parser return before emitting ⊥? At the time
> you read the <html>-tag, you cannot know whether a syntax error far down
> in the file makes it invalid. Thus, you may not return the top-most
> <html>-tag until you see the closing </html>.

But to return the top most <html> you don't have to parse the data until the 
</html> tag, it is really enough to see it, of course you need to read the 
whole file for that,  but the parsing can be lazy.

				Zoli