HTML to plain-text conversion behavior seems to differ from version 1.6.7.2 to 1.6.8 in some cases.

[Sri Vishnu Totakura]

Hi,

We have recently updated Nokogiri from 1.6.7.2 to 1.6.8 and noticed that few of our tests that test conversion of HTML from emails to Plain-text fail.

We looked into it and looks like Nokogiri isn't returning the same output for some HTML in both the versions.

For example: 

Nokogiri::HTML("<=\nspan>Close</span>").text

returns "Close" on version 1.6.7.2  but returns "<=\nspan>Close" on version 1.6.8. If we remove the special characters =\n in the string, it returns "Close" as expected. These special characters are from the email clients or parsing (I suppose). 

Anyway, we are curious whether this an intended change? Could not find anything in the CHANGELOG that has direct reference with regards to the change in this behavior (or I'm not very well aware of the terminology used).

Peace,

Vishnu

[Mike Dalessio]

Hi,

Apologies for the late reply. In the CHANGELOG it's noted that 1.6.8 included an update of libxml2 from 2.9.2 to 2.9.4, which might explain some small behavioral differences that you're seeing, particularly around how invalid markup is corrected.

-m

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