Justice – APIs are not subject to copyright protection
anyone is free under the Copyright Act to write his or her own code to carry out exactly the same function or specification of any methods used in the Java API
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New HTML Parser: The long-awaited libxml2 based HTML parser code is live. It needs further work but already handles most markup better than the original parser.
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