- From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2002 22:21:31 +0100
- To: "Jelks Cabaniss" <jelks@jelks.nu>
- Cc: <html-tidy@w3.org>
* Jelks Cabaniss wrote: >Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote: > >> > If there isn't one already, there probably should be a plain >> > generic XMLTidy (separate program from HTMLTidy), that could >> > assume all elements to be inline then fed an exception list >> > of block and empty elements. > >> What shall an XML Tidy tool "tidy"? > >Good point. Good question. > >I'm not sure it could do that much in the HTMLTidy sense of fixing up >*bad* markup. I can think of some cases like * missing end-tags * un-quoted attribute values * un-escaped <, ]> and & * white-space in front of the XML declaration but then I come to think who actually writes non-wellformed XML documents and isn't writing a fault tolerant XML processor harmful? >I was really thinking of just a "pretty print" mechanism. White-space in XML documents is in general significant, so it is hard to actually pretty print, unless you think a style like documented in http://www.w3.org/2000/08/lb2/ is "pretty". If not, you'd still need a definition of what elements in the to be tidied document are inline and block-level and if users are willing to provide this information? Who at all needs pretty XML?
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