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What are you saying? Are you pointing out the irrelevant fact that XML::LibXML can process some HTML other documents? Are you suggesting one should convince the provider of the HTML document to edit them so XML::LibXML can process them? Are you suggesting it's acceptable to do the following to parse an HTML document using XML::LibXML?

  1. Parse the HTML doc using another parser that can accept an encoding.
  2. If the document does not indicate its own encoding,
    1. Add a META element if none exist.
    2. Serialise the HTML.
    3. Replace the original HTML with this new HTML.
  3. Parse the HTML doc using XML::LibXML.
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Re^5: HTML parsing module handles known and unknown encoding
by grantm (Parson) on Nov 17, 2011 at 23:42 UTC
    I was merely pointing out that if the HTML includes an encoding ("charset") declaration, then XML::LibXML's parse_html method will honour it. I guess that's not much use if the HTML doesn't include a declaration.
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