Remove embedded mochiweb code

[philss]

This is low priority.

The idea is to remove mochiweb code from this codebase.

Solutions are:

• use a hex package of mochiweb (current not available);
• create a new HTML parser in Elixir and use as hex dependency.

[os6sense]

Might another solution be a hex community package? https://github.com/hexpm/community

[philss]

@os6sense Great idea! I didn't know about that! I will try the hex community approach. Thanks!

[philss]

@os6sense Thanks for the suggestion! The package is now published and the floki v0.1.1 is already using it.

[sntran]

Sorry to bring back an old issue, but is there a reason that we need the whole mochiweb package? Looks like you only uses the HTML parser from mochiweb, and that module has only seen 1 commit (which was to update the license) since 2013.

Would it be simpler to just include that module in the codebase?

Or, write own parser.

[philss]

Hi @sntran,

Your question is valid. I moved out the whole mochiweb code because I didn't want to maintain that code in this repository. The main reason is because I don't know Erlang enough to understand what is going on inside that code. Or perhaps I don't know the mechanics of the HTML parser enough.

So that lead to your second suggestion, which is write my own parser: I really want to do this, but this will take some time. I think it will be alive before Floki reaches 1.0.