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(unknown charset) Re: the development of tidy

From: (unknown charset) Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org>
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 20:29:07 +0100 (GMT Daylight Time)
To: (unknown charset) zuoli <lzuo@ict.ac.cn>
cc: (unknown charset) html-tidy@w3.org
Message-ID: <Pine.WNT.4.10.10003302027050.-330895@hazel.hpl.hp.com> 
On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, zuoli wrote:

> I am interested in Tidy and I think the validation of a HTML
> document and converting it to a XHTML document isn't the final
> intention of Tidy. What is the development plan of Tidy?

Tidy is not a validator, but unlike a validator, Tidy aims
to fix up errors in HTML documents. Tidy is useful in
dealing with machine generated or hand edited markup.
At some point the development of Tidy will stop as the
number of bugs/enhancement requests dies down.


Regards,

-- Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org> http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett
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