Re: LYNX-DEV knuj problem fixed

[Foteos Macrides]

Laura Eaves <address@hidden> wrote:
>The webmaster at knuj fixed their bad html and lynx now processes their
>order page without a problem.
>
>Meanwhile, I played around with a patch in HTML.c to ignore nested form tags
>(as they're supposed to be illegal anyway, and Netscape seems to do something
>sensible with them).
>The patch is included below.  Ignore it if you think it's a bad idea or if I
>missed something.  This is only supposed to be error recovery.

        Just to warn you, that patch isn't crash-safe, and no crash-safe
way to do what you'd like is feasible with the current Lynx API.  Rob's
mods, in theory, are heading in a direction such that the current,
stack-based parsers can be eliminated, but that's in the future.

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