This web page:
http://azultralights.com/ulclass.html
parses OK with BeautifulSoup, but "prettify" will hit the
recursion limit if you try to display it. I raised the
recursion limit to a large number, and it was converted
to 5MB of text successfully, in about a minute.
The page has real problems. 1901 errors from the W3C validator,
and that's after forcing an encoding and a doctype. "body" tags
nested 3 deep. "head" element inside two "body" tags. Tags
opened with an upper case tag and closed with a lower case tag.
All "font" tags unclosed. Hundreds of "li" tags outside a
"ol" or "ul". Yet Firefox is quite happy to display it.
It looks even better in IE, according to comments on the page.
The page consists of a long list of classified ads, all with
unclosed tags. So the maximum depth is huge.
Worst HTML I've seen in a while.
(We use BeautifulSoup to parse hostile web sites in bulk,
so we tend to discover more hard cases than most users.)
John Nagle
SiteTruth
