- From: Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 12:11:40 +0000 (GMT Standard Time)
- To: Shivani <ssud@Adobe.COM>
- cc: html-tidy@w3.org
On Tue, 4 Jan 2000, Shivani wrote: > I have been following the tidy-parser list for a some time now - > I am interested in the BNF or equivalent grammar for the tidy > parser - I could not find it on the w3-tidy site (maybe I missed > it ) Can anyone help with a link to the same? or with where I > can find it? The formal grammar for HTML is defined by the HTML specifications, see http://www.w3.org/MarkUp. Unfortunately, a great many documents and document generation tools don't conform to these specifications. Tidy is a kind of expert system that knows lots of rules for fixing up real-world html with a pretty printer for outputting the result. The code uses tables for tags and attributes to invoke the appropriate processing methods, but the complexities of the problems it has to deal with preclude a description of the parser using BNF. Regards, -- Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org> http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett tel/fax: +44 122 578 3011 (or 2521) +44 385 320 444 (mobile) World Wide Web Consortium (on assignment from HP Labs)
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