- From: Alexander Biron <biron@ifh.de>
- Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 12:08:23 +0200 (METDST)
- To: Sebastian Lange <lange@cyperfection.de>
- cc: html-tidy@w3.org
On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Sebastian Lange wrote: > I believe there should be a configuration option to either "leave", "drop" > or "transform to CSS" deprecated attributes. > > Most important to me is that tidy's output is VALID HTML, especially > proprietary Microsoft Tags/Attributes should be simply dropped. > Of course some people will disagree, that's why having this as a > configurable option is desirable. > > SUGGESTION: > fix-bad-attributes: leave, drop, convert > If set to _drop_, deprecated attributes will be discarded. If set to > _convert_, causes Tidy to replace deprecated attributes by appropriate > style rules. The default is _leave_. > > REMARK: > "deprecated" varies depending on the selected DTD, of course... (attributes > that are deprecated in STRICT version might be compliant with the > TRANSITIONAL version, and this should be recognized). > > Any comments or objections? Sounds great: Great solution, but also great effort to implement it: How do you convert undefined elements/attributes? :-) Seriously: Attributes and Elements can be deprecated, obsolete, known proprietary (e.g. M$ or NN) or unknown (typos, ...). Conversion for the first two classes would be great, for the third one: terrific, for the last one - impossible. -- Cheers alex Alexander Biron Seven Wonders of Modern Astronomy: http://www.sciam.com/1999/1299engineering/1299musser.html work: http://www.ifh.de/~biron/ private: Tel (+49)33762-77-483 Tel(+49)30-4948857 mailto:biron@ifh.de mailto:biron@frohnau-flamingos.de
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