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NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

So I'm looking at options for doing some basic HTML parsing in #rust

I found html5ever made by the Servo project, but can't figure out how to use it. I check their docs. Aha, you need an implementation of TreeSink which is not provided by the crate. Their example docs use markup5ever_rcdom.

I go to read that crate's docs, and it's a stern warning not to use it – it's only designed for testing.

I settle on some other library for parsing.

… later, I learn that under the hood, it's rcdom. 🤦‍♂️