Parsing HTML with Beautiful Soup
Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is the fundamental technology used to create web pages. HTML is composed of HTML elements that consist of so-called tags enveloped in slanted brackets (for example, <html>). Often, tags are paired with a starting and closing tag in a hierarchical, tree-like structure. An HTML-related draft specification was first published by Berners-Lee in 1991. Initially, there were only 18 HTML elements. The formal HTML definition was published by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) in 1993. The IETF completed the HTML 2.0 standard in 1995. Around 2013, the latest HTML version, HTML5, was specified. HTML is not a very strict standard compared to XHTML and XML.
Modern browsers tolerate ...
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