[XML-SIG] HtmlBuilder

Daniel Biddle deltab@ps.cus.umist.ac.uk
Mon, 8 Mar 1999 18:39:06 +0000 (GMT)


On Mon, 8 Mar 1999, Fred L. Drake wrote:

> Jeff.Johnson@icn.siemens.com writes:
>  > Another problem I often see in hand-made HTML files is improperly nested
>  > tags.  I wonder if there is a clean way to detect those errors?
:
> [...] I think having an "HTML Fixer" class would be really nice!

You might want to take a look at HTML Tidy then:

| When editing HTML it's easy to make mistakes. Wouldn't it be nice if
| there was a simple way to fix these mistakes automatically and tidy up
| sloppy editing into nicely layed out markup? Well now there is! Dave
| Raggett's HTML TIDY is a free utility for doing just that. It also works
| great on the atrociously hard to read markup generated by specialized HTML
| editors and conversion tools, and can help you identify where you need
| to pay further attention on making your pages more accessible to people with
| disabilities.

Best of all, it comes with complete source, so it shouldn't be too hard to
make a HTML Fixer class out of it.

You can find HTML Tidy at <URL: http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett/tidy/ >.

-- Daniel Biddle <deltab@sixsteps.org>