- From: Mike Schinkel <mikeschinkel@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2006 18:57:34 -0500
- To: <www-tag@w3.org>
>> The W3C define a process by which *any* arbitrary >> byte stream can be converted into valid XHTML, no >> matter what... Sounds like a really great way to go. >> This process must be fully determinate. That is two >> independent implementations must always produce the >> same XHTML version modulo insignificant details like >> white space inside tags or quotes around attribute >> values. The list newbie in me is curious; why not go ahead and simplify it and instead fully define it to *include* white space inside tags and quotes around attributes? It would make comparisons of output between different parsers easier. >> Fortunately we have at least one existence proof of >> such a product and it is called, obviously enough, >> TagSoup: http://home.ccil.org/~cowan/XML/tagsoup/ I read this page and have questions. "TagSoup also includes a command-line processor that reads HTML files and can generate either clean HTML or well-formed XML that is a close approximation to XHTML." 1.) Why a "generate ... a close approximation to XHTML?" Doesn't it need to "generate XHTML?" 2.) Secondly (and you may no know this and maybe I shouldn't even be asking on the list, but...) how do I use TagSoup on a Windows machine? -Mike Schinkel http://www.mikeschinkel.com/blogs/ http://www.welldesignedurls.org/
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