This library and [masterminds/html5](https://packagist.org/packages/masterminds/html5) serve similar purposes. Generally, we are more accurate, but they are much faster. The following table summarizes the main functional differences.
| Extensions required | dom, ctype, mbstring or iconv | dom |
| Handling of invalid characters | Characters are dropped | [Per specification](https://encoding.spec.whatwg.org/#concept-encoding-process) |
| Handling of invalid XML element names | Name is changed to "invalid" | [Per specification](https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/parsing.html#coercing-an-html-dom-into-an-infoset) |
| Handling of invalid XML attribute names | Attribute is dropped | [Per specification](https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/parsing.html#coercing-an-html-dom-into-an-infoset) |
| Handling of misnested tags | Parent end tags always close children | [Per specification](https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/parsing.html#an-introduction-to-error-handling-and-strange-cases-in-the-parser) |
| Handling of data between table cells | Left as-is | [Per specification](https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/parsing.html#an-introduction-to-error-handling-and-strange-cases-in-the-parser) |
| Handling of omitted start tags | Elements are not inserted | Per specification |
| Time needed to parse single-page HTML specification | 2.8 seconds | 7.0 seconds |
