HTML tags optimization [ interesting problem]

[Sybren Stuvel]

DENG enlightened us with:
> i use SGMLParser to process HTML files, in order to do some
> optimizations,
>
> something like this:
>
><i><b>TEXT1</b></i><b><i><u>TEXT2</u></i></b>
>
> optimise to
>
><i><b>TEXT1<u>TEXT2</u></b><i>

Why not optimize it to:

<span class='onerole'>TEXT1</span>
<span class='secondrole'>TEXT2</span>?

> [ snipped stuff about <font> tags ]

If you're serious about using HTML, I suggest you read a book that's
not ten years old.

> anyone can give me some advices?

Yes, read the following:

http://www.w3.org/QA/Tips/
http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/
http://validator.w3.org/

Sybren
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