Weird banner message sent to stderr when using tidy as a converter to xhtml

Hi,

When using tidy as a converter to convert HTML to XHTML, it prints its 
usage "banner" to stderr.

$ tidy -asxhtml index.html >output.html
Info: Document content looks like XHTML 1.0 Strict
No warnings or errors were found.


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This makes it unusable in environments such as cronjobs.

I could theoretically redirect stderr to /dev/null, but this would also 
silence actual error messages, should they occur...

The XHTML in output.html looks ok by the way :-)

IMHO, a banner should only be printed in response to a specific option 
(such ass tidy --about), or maybe if command line options are erroneous 
(... in which case it should be accompanied by a short statement what 
exactly is erroneous with the options)

Thanks,

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Alain Knaff
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Received on Wednesday, 3 April 2019 08:21:26 UTC