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<h1>CyberNeko HTML Parser <sub>0.9.5</sub></h1>
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<h2>About</h2>
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NekoHTML is a simple <a href='http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/'>HTML</a>
scanner and tag balancer that enables application programmers to 
parse HTML documents and access the information using standard XML 
interfaces. The parser can scan HTML files and "fix up" many common 
mistakes that human (and computer) authors make in writing HTML 
documents. NekoHTML adds missing parent elements; automatically 
closes elements with optional end tags; and can handle mismatched 
inline element tags.
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NekoHTML is written using the 
<a href='http://xml.apache.org/xerces2-j/xni.html'>Xerces 
Native Interface</a> (XNI) that is the foundation of the 
<a href='http://xml.apache.org/xerces2-j/'>Xerces2</a> 
implementation. This enables you to use the NekoHTML parser
with existing XNI tools without modification or rewriting code.

<h2>License Agreement</h2>
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The NekoHTML parser is distributed under an Apache-style license
and is currently being considered as a sub-project of the Apache 
Xerces project. If accepted, the license and development of NekoHTML
will move to Apache. However, this will not affect the ability of
the parser to be freely used as specified by the current license.
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For specific license details, please refer to the 
<a href='../../LICENSE'>LICENSE</a> file.

<h2>Download</h2>
<p>
The NekoHTML parser includes complete Java source code and 
documentation. You can download the latest version from the 
following location:
<ul>
<li>NekoHTML 
    [<a href='http://www.apache.org/~andyc/neko/nekohtml-latest.zip'>zip</a>]
    [<a href='http://www.apache.org/~andyc/neko/nekohtml-latest.tar.gz'>tgz</a>] 
</ul>

<h2>Requirements and Limitations</h2>
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This version of NekoHTML requires the following:
<ul>
<li><a href='http://java.sun.com/products/'>Java 1.1</a> (or 
    higher)
<li><a href='http://xml.apache.org/xerces2-j/download.cgi'>Xerces 2.0.0</a>
    (or higher) 
    [<a href='http://archive.apache.org/dist/xml/xerces-j/'>archive</a>]
</ul>
<p>
This version has the following limitations:
<ul>
<li>There are HTML documents for which NekoHTML cannot properly 
    generate a well-formed XML document event stream. For example,
    documents with multiple &lt;html&gt; tags are inherently 
    ill-formed because XML documents may only have a single root
    element.
<li>Code added to the core DOM implementation in Xerces-J 2.0.1
    introduced a bug in the HTML DOM implementation based on it.
    The bug causes the element nodes in the resultant HTML document 
    object to be of type <code>org.apache.xerces.dom.ElementNSImpl</code> 
    instead of the appropriate HTML DOM element objects. The problem
    affects NekoHTML users who use the parser with Xerces-J 2.0.1 and
    anyone using the HTML DOM implementation in Xerces-J 2.0.1.    
<li>There are no other known major limitations with this release. 
    However, additional work can always be done to improve 
    performance, fix bugs, and add functionality.
</ul>
<p>
For a more complete list of items to be done, please refer to
the <a href='../../TODO_html'>Todo Items</a>.

<h2>Contact Information</h2>
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Andy Clark &lt;<a href='mailto:andyc@apache.org'>andyc@apache.org</a>&gt;

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