Looks like things have changed since the last time I checked. Thank you for pointing this out. Next time I'll check y facts twice before posting.
Still, lxml being basically a binding to libxml2 the performance comparison of the two libs should still hold. I heard it recommended too, in a python talk about scraping like 1 or 2 (at most) years ago.
BeautifulSoup may still be better for parsing broken documents, though I never had problems with lxml while using it on a very large variety of sites.
You can use BeautifulSoup with lxml if you like, although I just use the HTMLParser in lxml these days and don't use BeautifulSoup any more. It seems to work a little better, at least for my uses.
Still, lxml being basically a binding to libxml2 the performance comparison of the two libs should still hold. I heard it recommended too, in a python talk about scraping like 1 or 2 (at most) years ago.
BeautifulSoup may still be better for parsing broken documents, though I never had problems with lxml while using it on a very large variety of sites.