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Unreliable iterator based incremental parsing #123

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data = source.read(0o3000)

Here if it breaks between a href, nothing will be further parsed.

See example:

Wrong:

    from lxml import etree

    parser = etree.HTMLPullParser()
    for data in (b'<root><a href="2011-03-13_',  b'135411/">2011-03-13_135411/</a></root>',):
        parser.feed(data)
        for _, elem in parser.read_events():
            print(elem.tag) # nothing
    parser.close()

Expected:

    from lxml import etree

    parser = etree.HTMLPullParser()
    for data in (b'<root><a href="2011-03-13_135411/">2011-03-13_135411/</a></root>',):
        parser.feed(data)
        for _, elem in parser.read_events():
            print(elem.tag) # a root
    parser.close()

It may be better just to feed all at once.

        parser.feed(source.fp.data)
        for event, element in parser.read_events():
            for child in links(element):
                if child is None:
                    continue
                yield child

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