Re: HTML to XHTML translator

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> I don't think that you MUST convert style information into a CSS file.
> In case you did, I would rather give this as an option (not as a default setting).
>
I agree. It is what I had in mind.

> I can understand this :)
> I can actually see how much time you spent on this compared to the time you spent on the
> translator engine itself :)
>
And it is the most ugly code in the program!

>
> I tested it on an XHTML 1.0 Strict file.
> The tool is very useful but does not generate valid HTML from a valid XHTML document.
> I can see many reasons for it not to do so but I just thought it would be helpful to share what I
> learned about it.
>
The program is not intended to work with XHTML at input, but it is not
protected against this problem. Was the validation problem something
like a duplicated xmlns attribute in html element? If not, please mail
to me the input document you tried. It could be useful for me. I'm going
to work in this problem.

> In any case, please ask your supervisor for open source distribution. This way, the open-source
> community can help and get the tool better and better.
>
I'm going to ask her. And I need to document it better before distribute
it (it is only documented in spanish now).

Thanks for your comments,

Jesús

Received on Thursday, 16 January 2003 15:11:22 UTC