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# html5tokenizer

[![docs.rs](https://img.shields.io/docsrs/html5tokenizer)](https://docs.rs/html5tokenizer)
[![crates.io](https://img.shields.io/crates/l/html5tokenizer.svg)](https://crates.io/crates/html5tokenizer)

Spec-compliant HTML parsing [requires both tokenization and tree-construction][parsing model].
While this crate implements a spec-compliant HTML tokenizer it does not implement any
tree-construction. Instead it just provides a `NaiveParser` that may be used as follows:

```rust
use std::fmt::Write;
use html5tokenizer::{NaiveParser, Token};

let html = "<title   >hello world</title>";
let mut new_html = String::new();

for token in NaiveParser::new(html).flatten() {
    match token {
        Token::StartTag(tag) => {
            write!(new_html, "<{}>", tag.name).unwrap();
        }
        Token::String(hello_world) => {
            write!(new_html, "{}", hello_world).unwrap();
        }
        Token::EndTag(tag) => {
            write!(new_html, "</{}>", tag.name).unwrap();
        }
        _ => panic!("unexpected input"),
    }
}

assert_eq!(new_html, "<title>hello world</title>");
```

## Limitations

* This crate does not yet implement tree construction  
  (which is necessary for spec-compliant HTML parsing).

* This crate does not yet implement [character encoding detection].

* The span logic assumes UTF-8 encoding.

* This crate does not yet implement spans for character tokens.

## Compliance & testing

The tokenizer passes the [html5lib tokenizer test suite].
The library is not yet fuzz tested.

## Credits

html5tokenizer was forked from [html5gum] 0.2.1, which was created by
Markus Unterwaditzer who deserves major props for implementing all 80 (!)
tokenizer states.

* Code span support has been added.
* The API has been revised.

For details please refer to the [changelog].

## License

Licensed under the MIT license, see [the LICENSE file].


[parsing model]: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/parsing.html#overview-of-the-parsing-model
[character encoding detection]: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/parsing.html#determining-the-character-encoding
[html5lib tokenizer test suite]: https://github.com/html5lib/html5lib-tests/tree/master/tokenizer
[html5gum]: https://crates.io/crates/html5gum
[changelog]: ./CHANGELOG.md
[the LICENSE file]: ./LICENSE