James

I am going to close this issue since it has been inactive for a long period of time without discussion. If this issue is still relevant, feel free to re-open...

I am closing this issue since there has been no activity since 2018. Going forward, https://python.microformats.io will be the canonical, official hosted version of mf2py. This is now outlined in...

@snarfed I was thinking about this and my first intuition was to try another parser like `html5lib`. It seems like an lxml issue.

Wow. That is surprising. I think switching to a different parser sounds wise; the user shouldn't have to foot the burden and see malformed markup.

You can use `html5lib` with BeautifulSoup for HTML5 parsing, but the BeautifulSoup documentation says this parser is `Very slow`. https://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/bs4/doc/

@jpcaruana Looks interesting! > There is a benchmark script named [benchmark.py](https://github.com/kovidgoyal/html5-parser/blob/master/benchmark.py) that compares the parse times for parsing a large (~ 5.7MB) HTML document in html5lib and html5-parser. The results...

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