Re: End tags in TidyLib

* Vacuum Joe wrote:
>I have a simple question, but it's puzzling me: I have
>used LibTidy to parse some HTML files, and then I
>recurse through them, exploring every node in the
>tree.  I can never find any nodes of type
>TidyNode_End.

That's very good then. In Tidy we have a Node struct that's really
misnamed, it's for all sorts of tokens like start-tags, end-tags,
document type declarations, etc. end-tags are not useful to keep
so these are dropped at parse time.

>It does make sense: there should never be an "end"
>node, because when you have a node like a P, then all
>the content is children of that P node, and therefore
>the "end" of this P node should never be encountered. 
>In other words, all nodes should be either starts, or
>text.

Well, you get probably different types for <img> and <img/> and
there are processing instructions, CDATA sections, comments, etc.
you should get those too.
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Received on Thursday, 9 June 2005 14:16:17 UTC