Fixing errors in HTML
Kenneth.Holmlund@tp.umu.se
Fri, 07 Jun 1996 0:00:04 METDST
From: Kenneth.Holmlund@tp.umu.se
Message-Id: <199606062200.AAA09555@minerva.tp.umu.se>
Subject: Fixing errors in HTML
To: www-html@w3.org
Date: Fri, 07 Jun 1996 0:00:04 METDST
In-Reply-To: <199606062003.QAA25019@www19.w3.org>; from "www-html-d-request@w3.org" at Jun 6, 96 4:03 pm
Hi,
Most people have probably noticed the problem
with HTML errors in guestbooks and other dynamic
documents that sometimes screw up the complete
document.
What I want to know is:
1) Is there a handy piece of software (perl script
or whatever) that can check that all tags that
are supposed to be closed are closed, that there
are no missing "'s etc., i.e. a minor syntax checker
that can be applied on forms input ?
2) One can also do a pretty dirty thing by
putting in a whole bunch of closing tags
after each part in a dynamic document such
that anchors, headers, etc really are closed
(twice..). Would it be possible to have a tag
in HTML that surrounds a large piece of HTML
and forces everything that's been opened
after the start tag to be closed at the ending
tag, i.e. some kind of HTML quoting.
I suppose this doesn't really belong inside
HTML but couldn't it be given as a hint
to the parser of the client at least ?
Kenneth
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