- From: Rijk van Geijtenbeek <rijk@iname.com>
- Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2001 21:54:40 +0100
- To: html-tidy@w3.org
On Sun, 04 Nov 2001 17:20:49 +0100, Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net> wrote: >* Rijk van Geijtenbeek wrote in ciwas: >>HTML Tidy does a great job of cleaning up, and converting to the use of >>stylesheets. In the case you describe I fear manual editing of the files >>will be needed even after running them through Tidy. For example, the >>automated process might convert all <font size=-1>..</font> tags to >><span class=c1>...</span> in one document, and <span class=c2>...</span> >>in another. This makes it hard to 'just' drop in a system wide linked >>stylesheet. But there's also the option to just drop all these FONTs >>before cleaning up. > >How could we improve Tidy to ease this? Implement a clairvoyance module? It's hard to detect logic in random tagsoup. In my experience, Tidy does what it can. The option to just ignore the font tags and drop them from the output is invaluable in the case were you want to impose a generic site-wide style with class-less selectors. It would be nice if I could do some easy preprocessing: add a LINK element to all output, for example. I doubt if it would be possible to prevent all those c1/c20 classes by mapping them to existing classes (or element selectors) in linked stylesheets. >If possible, please follow up to html-tidy@w3.org. Done. Now to find a place to sign up for that list... It's not on http://www.w3.org/Mail/Lists.html , though it can be found on http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ ... Ah, only from http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett/tidy/ -- If you don't like having choices | Rijk van Geijtenbeek made for you, you should start | mailto:rijk@iname.com making your own. - Neal Stephenson | http://rijk.op.het.net
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