BugFix: html pages containing <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> declarations #151
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I had experienced a problem with html pages that started with
It seems the lxml.html parser is not able to deal with this properly as noted here. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15302125/html-encoding-and-lxml-parsing
I have inserted a regex substitution to remove the tag from the raw html and the problem is now resolved.