LibXML2 bindings for html5ever

[aminya]

Is there a possibility that we have LibXML2 bindings for html5ever similar to how gumbo has it?
https://github.com/sevenval/gumbo-libxml

I have a program that is written on top of LibXML2, however, I need to parse HTML5 with it. I was wondering if I can use html5ever for this purpose without changing my whole library.

[jdm]

The current maintainers of this library have no experience with libxml2 and won't spend any time investigating this as a possibility, sorry.

[aminya]

The conversion is very simple. We just need a node_convert function similar to this to convert html5ever nodes to LibXML nodes, and also a html5_parse function which uses that node_convert internally, similar to this

[SimonSapin]

to convert html5ever nodes

There is no such thing as html5ever nodes. Instead the intended use is that you implement the html5ever::tree_builder::TreeSink trait to parse into whatever tree representation you wish, including libxml nodes. Such support doesn’t need to live in this crate or repository. The rcdom crate has a naive TreeSink implementation and tree data structure that exist mostly so we can run tests, and can also serve as an example to look at.

[hhaensel]

I know this is quite a while ago. We went away from Gumbo.jl as it couldn't preserve templates. I just submitted a PR to add template handling and to fix JuliaWeb/Gumbo.jl#86. Maybe, this is an option for you as soon as it is merged?