Re: Tidy becomes less forgiving

* Patrick Lok wrote:
>I downloaded the tidy source code on Sep 1st and I've found that the code 
>that I downloaded is less forgiving than the official release of tidy 4th 
>Aug 2000.
>
>I've attached 2 of the files that have been rejected by the new tidy but 
>cleaned up by the old tidy.

There aren't any files attached to you mail, at least I didn't get them.

>Is there any reason why the development team had made tidy tighter or less 
>forgiving?

Depends on the cases, in general, the current Tidy should be more
forgiving than the 04 Aug 2000 release.

>It would be nice for tidy to be more flexible and take as much document as 
>possible.

Well, there are cases where Tidy can not correctly guess what the author
really intended.
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Received on Thursday, 13 September 2001 09:06:26 UTC