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User documentation? #489

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@davaya

Is there any tutorial documentation for this package? Something that would answer questions like when parsing an HTML file:

with open(fname, 'rb') as f:
    doc = html5lib.parse(f)
for e in list(doc[0]):
    print(e.tag)

Why does the result look like this?

{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}meta
{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}title
{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}link

A naive user would expect tag to return the literal value contained in the HTML element, not the tag prefixed with a qualifier of some sort. It would be helpful to have a document that explains why the prefix has been injected and how to configure the library to return unadorned tags.

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