- From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 23:29:54 +0200
- To: wayne <wdhammond@earthlink.net>
- Cc: html-tidy@w3.org
* wayne wrote: >I am attempting to use your product with html 5 documents and believe >tidy does not get it right. Are there plans to update tidy to include >the html5 specifications? Well, I am interested in adding some "HTML5" support. I would need a ma- chine readable list of all allowed elements and which attributes they may have ("a@href, a@title, ...") and for all new elements the table in http://tidy.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/tidy/tidy/src/tags.c?view=markup would have to be filled out ("<time> is like <abbr>" style information would be a good first order approximation, but for some elements this is not quite that simple, so anyone compiling this data would have to point out problems like "<track> is like <br> but not allowed everywhere that <br> is allowed"). This data would then be used to update the table above and others like it. Then I suppose some doctype-related things need to be updated so you get your "HTML5 doctype" out. Some of element and attribute check sub- routines might have to be updated so you don't get false errors due to using new features. That would roughly give you "HTML5" support in the "Conforming documents are accepted and you don't get many wrong errors and they come out roughly as you put them in" sense, which is about all you can expect. I could make the attribute list myself and am happy to use machine-readable data to update the tables, but I am not going to make the needed "<time> is like <abbr>" documentation. -- Björn Höhrmann · mailto:bjoern@hoehrmann.de · http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de Am Badedeich 7 · Telefon: +49(0)160/4415681 · http://www.bjoernsworld.de 25899 Dagebüll · PGP Pub. KeyID: 0xA4357E78 · http://www.websitedev.de/
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