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html5lib is a pure-python library for parsing HTML. It is designed to conform to the WHATWG HTML specification, as is implemented by all major web browsers.

As html5lib is implemented in pure-python it is significantly slower than alternatives powered by lxml (like parsel or beautifulsoup). However, html5lib implements a more true html5 parsing which can represent HTML tree more correctly than alternatives.

cascadia is a library for Go that provides a CSS selector engine, allowing you to use CSS selectors to select elements from an HTML document.

It is built on top of the html package in the Go standard library, and provides a more efficient and powerful way to select elements from an HTML document.

Example Use


```python import html5lib from html5lib import parse html_doc = "My Title" parsed = parse(html_doc) title = parsed.getElementsByTagName("title")[0] print(title.childNodes[0].nodeValue) ```
```go package main import ( "fmt" "github.com/andybalholm/cascadia" "golang.org/x/net/html" "strings" ) func main() { // Create an HTML string html := `

Hello, World!

Example
` // Parse the HTML string into a node tree doc, err := html.Parse(strings.NewReader(html)) if err != nil { fmt.Println("Error:", err) return } // Compile the CSS selector sel, err := cascadia.Compile("p") if err != nil { fmt.Println("Error:", err) return } // Use the Selector.Match method to select elements from the document matches := sel.Match(doc) if len(matches) > 0 { fmt.Println(matches[0].FirstChild.Data) // > Hello, World! } } ```

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