Should I use DomDocument for parsing html code

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I have tried my best to answer this question myself through research but I am still a little bit worried about whether I am using the right thing.Basically I am using the DomDocument Library to build a jQuery like theme parser for my framework. Now with the web as it is today HTML is coming in different shapes and sizes e.g HTML 4, HTML 5, XHTML, XHTML 5 etc ...The issue that I am finding with DomDocument is that if you give it HTML code it will only work with it if it is standards compliant XHTML.I know it can convert it into XHTML and I can use the tidy library to make the code acceptable but my main worry is: what if a developer using my framework has a theme that uses all the cool(debatable) new HTML 5 features, as soon as he passes it to my framework it will either throw a tantrum or convert it down to XHTML which would suck.So my question is:Is DomDocument the most convenient library for what I need?orIs there a way of getting it to work with all the different variants of HTML?
 
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