Mailing List Archive: (Re: Tomasz) Running script interactively instead of 'batch-repairing'?

(Re: Tomasz) Running script interactively instead of 'batch-repairing'?

Jan 20, 2003, 8:08 PM

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Or build in a wiki/html-validator in the 'interactive' user interface
for authors: show autors html-errors and wiki-code-errros when they
press 'preview page'. This way, writers of articles get 'W3C-educated'
automatically.
One could even consider rejectiing of non-W3C-valid-articles... but that
is maybe too strict. Thank for promoting W3C, Tomasz :-), kind regards,
Pieter Suurmond

Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
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> On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 05:31:02PM -0800, Brion Vibber wrote:
> > That's an error in the wiki page; our parser can correct some errors,
> > but isn't smart enough to fix all of them. Fixed.
> >
> > The front page now validates.
> >
> > -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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> Is it possible to run some script to check all Wiki pages ?
> Most of problems will be silly things like missing <tr> and it may help
> to fix them.
>
> It will also help for switching to XHTML (+ MathML) some day.
> XHTML parsers are much less forgiving than HTML parsers.
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Re: (Re: Tomasz) Running script interactively instead of 'batch-repairing'? [ In reply to ]

tarquin at planetunreal

Jan 21, 2003, 4:00 AM

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Pieter Suurmond wrote:

>Or build in a wiki/html-validator in the 'interactive' user interface
>for authors: show autors html-errors
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one reason why we should phase out HTML in wiki text.

>and wiki-code-errros when they
>press 'preview page'. This way, writers of articles get 'W3C-educated'
>automatically.
>
Wiki-markup should not be able to produce invalid HTML -- or rather,
there's not "wrong" wiki syntax -- just something the writer did not intend

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Re: (Re: Tomasz) Running script interactively instead of 'batch-repairing'? [ In reply to ]

taw at users

Jan 21, 2003, 6:19 AM

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On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 11:00:28AM +0000, tarquin wrote:
> Pieter Suurmond wrote:
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> >Or build in a wiki/html-validator in the 'interactive' user interface
> >for authors: show autors html-errors
> >
> one reason why we should phase out HTML in wiki text.

This is wrong reasoning. We should allow as much HTML we do now,
but make parser understand more of it, so it can fix some mistakes.