- From: Jany Quintard <quintard.j@cgi.fr>
- Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 11:45:41 -0600
- To: html-tidy@w3c.org
On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, Marc Rubin, Jay's Island Software Development & Consulting wrote: > My goal is -automated- conversion of many existing HTML documents to XHTML, > .../... > that... but Tidy appears to be the right tool for the job. > > Both of the nested "div" suggestions work acceptably in w3c's Amaya browser > -- thanks for the feedback. Conversion to "name"ed divs seems more direct > than "class"ified paragraphs, but I may be missing some other advantage. > > The question now is whether either of these solutions could be incorporated > into Tidy as an option?: > > > <!-- Courtesy of P. T. Rourke --> > <div name="sec1"><h1>First Order Heading</h1>="sec1.1"><h2>Second Order Heading</h2>> </div> The problem here is that (if as Jelks Cabaniss said) name is ID, the structure of the file is not easy to modify, because, when you add a division somewhere, all IDs after it have to be modified. > or > > <!-- Courtesy of Jany Quintard (modified) --> > <div> > <p class="heading">First Order Heading</p>> <p class="heading">Second Order Heading</p>> </div> > </div> > > I'd appreciate feedback on feasibility from anyone familiar with Tidy's > source code? I am not familiar with Tidy code :-( I prefer the second solution because it is a way to get rid of hn elements which IMO are not needed. What we should need in well-structured HTML would be a <divtitle> element (But this is my preussian-psycho-rigid view of SGML/XML languages). Actually, hn are useful shortcuts, but the purity of the model suffers from them. And the XHTML DTDs do *not* have any divtitle element. The tools to make the transformation is *not* Tidy, but some SGML tool (like OpenJade for example, but there must be others). Jany.
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