class Nokogiri::HTML::Document

def parse string_or_io, url = nil, encoding = nil, options = XML::ParseOptions::DEFAULT_HTML

Nokogiri::XML::ParseOptions.
Nokogiri::XML::ParseOptions::RECOVER. See the constants in
is a number that sets options in the parser, such as
encoding that should be used when processing the document. +options+
+url+ is resource where this document is located. +encoding+ is the
responds to _read_ and _close_ such as an IO, or StringIO.
Parse HTML. +thing+ may be a String, or any object that
## 
def parse string_or_io, url = nil, encoding = nil, options = XML::ParseOptions::DEFAULT_HTML
  options = Nokogiri::XML::ParseOptions.new(options) if Fixnum === options
  # Give the options to the user
  yield options if block_given?
  if string_or_io.respond_to?(:encoding)
    unless string_or_io.encoding.name == "ASCII-8BIT"
      encoding ||= string_or_io.encoding.name
    end
  end
  if string_or_io.respond_to?(:read)
    url ||= string_or_io.respond_to?(:path) ? string_or_io.path : nil
    if !encoding
      # Perform advanced encoding detection that libxml2 does
      # not do.
      string_or_io = EncodingReader.new(string_or_io)
      begin
        return read_io(string_or_io, url, encoding, options.to_i)
      rescue EncodingFoundException => e
        # A retry is required because libxml2 has a problem in
        # that it cannot switch encoding well in the middle of
        # parsing, especially if it has already seen a
        # non-ASCII character when it finds an encoding hint.
        encoding = e.encoding
      end
    end
    return read_io(string_or_io, url, encoding, options.to_i)
  end
  # read_memory pukes on empty docs
  return new if string_or_io.nil? or string_or_io.empty?
  if !encoding
    encoding = EncodingReader.detect_encoding(string_or_io)
  end
  read_memory(string_or_io, url, encoding, options.to_i)
end