Re: Tidy5 and Perl

Hi Andy,

Thanks for offering your help on Tidy and help make it HTML5 aware.
I am cc'ing Mike Smith and Dave Ragget who both works on Tidy.

Cheers,
Vivien

On Mon, 2012-07-02 at 21:44 -0500, Andy Lester wrote:
> Hi, my name is Andy Lester and automated testing and machine
> validation make me happy.  I'd like to help with the Tidy5 validator,
> and to integrate its use in Perl culture.
> 
> Some background:
> 
> I'm the author of two Perl modules that validate HTML:
> 
> * HTML::Lint http://search.cpan.org/dist/HTML-Lint/
> * HTML::Tidy http://search.cpan.org/dist/HTML-Tidy/
> 
> HTML::Tidy is a wrapper around the original libtidy.
> 
> HTML::Lint is a pure Perl module that I wrote that's not nearly as
> featureful, but it doesn't require outside C libraries.
> 
> In both of these cases, the goal is to provide software creators Perl
> interfaces to validation functions for using in automated test
> programs.  For instance, I might have code that looks like this:
> 
>  use Test::HTML::Tidy;
>         use Test::WWW::Mechanize;
> 
>  my $mech = Test::WWW::Mechanize->new();
>  $mech->get( 'http://mywebsite.com' );
>  tidy_ok( $mech->content );
> 
> This kind of validation program is very common in the Perl world, but
> we're stalled on HTML 4.  HTML 5 falls afoul of the two existing
> validators.
> 
> In this case, the $mech object fetches a web page, and then the
> content of the page is passed to a tidy function to validate it.  If
> there are errors, the tidy_ok() will throw an error, display the
> diagnostics, and the test program will fail.  Note that we're not
> using the reformatting functionality of tidy anywhere.
> 
> That's been the state of affairs until a week ago when Sierk Bornemann
> alerted me about the tidy-html5 fork at
> https://github.com/w3c/tidy-html5/.  This makes me very very happy.
> First, I'm glad that there's HTML 5 support because I don't want to
> add it myself to HTML::Lint.  Second, it seems that you'll be making
> actual releases.  This has always been a sore point with me and the SF
> tidy.  Because there were never releases, just "get the source from
> CVS", I had to fork it just to have a stable target to build again,
> and I called it tidyp: http://tidyp.com/
> 
> So two points:
> 
> * Is there a timeline for a first release of the tidy-html5?  As soon
> as there is one, I'd like to be able to release an updated version of
> my HTML::Tidy module and use the new tidy going forward.
> 
> * I'd love to help however I can. I'm an old C hand and would love to
> work at cleaning up and validating the C code (lint, splint, etc).
> Please put me to work.
> 
> Thanks,
> xoxo,
> Andy
> 
> --
> Andy Lester => andy@petdance.com => www.petdance.com => AIM:petdance


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Received on Wednesday, 4 July 2012 10:04:53 UTC