Re: [Tidy-dev] Request: a 'strip-presentation' option

+1

At 06:25 PM 7/20/2002 -0400, Jelks Cabaniss wrote:
>There is, I think, currently only one glaring omission in Tidy.  Many
>times, when we only want the *structural* markup, we need to get rid of
>**ALL** presentational markup leftovers, including the embedded style
>sheet.  Right now, the closest we can come to that is by applying
>"clean" and "drop-font-tags", but that leaves droppings like this still
>hanging around:
>
>     <style type="text/css">
>     /*<![CDATA[*/
>         p.c1 {font-style: italic; text-align: justify}
>     /*]]>*/
>     </style>
>
>         ...
>
>     <p class="c1">...</p>
>
>To get rid of this you have to manually delete the style section and
>then do a regex search & replace to get rid of all the 'class=".*"'
>attributes.  A
>
>         strip-presentation: yes/[NO]
>
>option (or similar idea) would be extremely useful.  And rather than
>have to set *two* options -- like 'clean' and 'drop-font-tags', which
>you currently have to set to get even part of the way there -- it should
>be a "one size kills all":  get rid of all FONT & CENTER elements,
>ALIGN, BGCOLOR, & BACKGROUND attributes etc., and *not* replacing them
>with CLASS attributes and *not* creating an embedded style section.
>
>Thanks,
>
>
>/Jelks
>
>
>
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Received on Saturday, 20 July 2002 19:09:15 UTC