Investigate migration to AngleSharp as HTML parsing engine

JackWFinlay / jsonize

Convert HTML to JSON.

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Investigate migration to AngleSharp as HTML parsing engine #34

Closed JackWFinlay closed 6 years ago

JackWFinlay commented 6 years ago

Investigate whether migration to the AngleSharp HTML parsing engine is feasible.

Points to consider:

Faster than HTMLAgilityPack in most cases.
HTML5 support.
Javascript execution support built in.
Possible breaking changes to API. E.g. EmptyTextNodeHandling, other configuration settings, etc.
First class .Net Core support.
Linq!
Possible increased configuration surface.
AngleSharp is more up-to-date (by several years), but not updated since 2016.
Not yet v1.0.0.

JackWFinlay commented 6 years ago

Migrated to AngleSharp. Work is required to retain the output format that is expected as per version 1.0.x.

JackWFinlay commented 6 years ago

After exploring the use of AngleSharp in this project I have deemed that I will not be migrating away from HtmlAgilityPack. It appears as though the project has been picked up again, so it's probably best to stay with the original engine, rather than re-working and potentially breaking the expected output.