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<h1>saxon:parse-html()</h1>
<p><b>saxon:parse($html as xs:string) ==> document-node()</b></p>
<p>This function takes a single argument, a string containing the source text of an HTML document.
It returns the document node (root node) that results from parsing this text using the TagSoup parser. </p>
<p>On the Java platform, the TagSoup jar file must be on the classpath. It may be downloaded from
<a href="http://home.ccil.org/~cowan/XML/tagsoup/tagsoup-1.2.jar" class="bodylink">http://home.ccil.org/~cowan/XML/tagsoup/tagsoup-1.2.jar</a>.</p>
<p>On the .NET platform, the code of TagSoup 1.2 is available automatically: it has been compiled into the
<code>saxon9pe.dll</code> and <code>saxon9ee.dll</code> assemblies.</p>
<p>This function is useful where an HTML document is embedded inside another using CDATA. It can also be
used in conjunction with the <code>unparsed-text()</code> function to read HTML from filestore. Note that the
base URI of the document is not retained in this case.</p>
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