- From: Fred Bone <Fred.Bone@dial.pipex.com>
- Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 09:39:39 -0000
- To: leegold <leegold@speedymail.org>
- CC: html-tidy@w3.org
On 20 November 2010 at 13:22, leegold said: > Hi, > > Using tidy to clean up an html file before I parse it. I thought Tidy > would make the process smoother. I was looking for an automated way to > report and fix for well-formed-ness... I am not an html standards expert > I'm sure Tidy has good reason for doing the following by default. > > Given a file with content only: <table class=""datatable""></table> > I do: $ tidy /home/g/Desktop/scrapes/xmlwf2.xml > I get back: > <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"> > <html> > <head> > <meta name="generator" content= > "HTML Tidy for Linux/x86 (vers 7 December 2008), see www.w3.org"> > <title></title> > </head> > <body> > <table class=""></table> > </body> > </html> > > So, "datatable" is removed. Why? I ask because tidy removed content here > and I'm worried about that. Is there a way to make tidy not do that? You have two pieces of information attached to <table>: class="" - a valid attribute, which Tidy has retained; datatable"" - which is invalid and has been removed. If datatable is supposed to be a (non-standard) attribute then it needs an equals sign separating it from the empty value string (the ""). That is, you should put <table class="" datatable=""> If it is supposed to be the value of the class attribute then it needs to go inside the quotes. You can't expect Tidy to guess which of these two you meant.
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