Thanks for pointing out where exactly to find it in the sources Brion
(and for pointing out http://cvs.sourceforge.net, Andre).
Oh, and sorry for the excessive comma's in my previous e-mail.
Greetings,
Pieter
Brion Vibber wrote:
>
> On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Pieter Suurmond wrote:
> > Richard Grevers wrote:
> > > On Wed, 22 Jan 2003 17:36:07 +0100, Tomasz Wegrzanowski
> > > > We should completely forbid </td>, </th> and </tr>.
> > > > They are just noise and table is completely unambiguous without them.
> > > Except Netscape 4 which will then refuse to display the page at all if
> > > there is any nesting of tables!
> >
> > And therefore, the html-output generated by the wikiserver should include
> > terminating -td, -th, and tr-tags automatically.
>
> Our current parser *tries* to do this (insert end tags where they're
> missing), but it doesn't do a very good job of it.
>
> Anyone who'd like to rewrite it is more than welcome to do so! Please take
> a look at removeHTMLtags() in OutputPage.html. Once you've finished
> wiping the tears from your eyes, write up something better. :) If you can
> integrate it with the rest of the markup parsing, so much the better.
>
> > I think Tomasz Wegrzanowski was talking about wiki-source here and
> > not about wiki-html-output. These are 2 different things (input and output).
>
> As long as we allow use of the HTML tags*, we should take them both with
> and without end tags. We should ideally produce valid XHTML from *any*
> given input. If the input is broken, we may not produce what the author
> intended, but we *must* produce something that will pass a validating
> parser.
>
> *(And if we some day decide not to allow them, we should provide
> equivalent functionality and, if possible, automatically convert
> articles to use the newer system at the time the change is made. If
> automatic conversion is not possible, we should make a conscious effort to
> fix anything that's broken.)
>
> -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
>
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(and for pointing out http://cvs.sourceforge.net, Andre).
Oh, and sorry for the excessive comma's in my previous e-mail.
Greetings,
Pieter
Brion Vibber wrote:
>
> On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Pieter Suurmond wrote:
> > Richard Grevers wrote:
> > > On Wed, 22 Jan 2003 17:36:07 +0100, Tomasz Wegrzanowski
> > > > We should completely forbid </td>, </th> and </tr>.
> > > > They are just noise and table is completely unambiguous without them.
> > > Except Netscape 4 which will then refuse to display the page at all if
> > > there is any nesting of tables!
> >
> > And therefore, the html-output generated by the wikiserver should include
> > terminating -td, -th, and tr-tags automatically.
>
> Our current parser *tries* to do this (insert end tags where they're
> missing), but it doesn't do a very good job of it.
>
> Anyone who'd like to rewrite it is more than welcome to do so! Please take
> a look at removeHTMLtags() in OutputPage.html. Once you've finished
> wiping the tears from your eyes, write up something better. :) If you can
> integrate it with the rest of the markup parsing, so much the better.
>
> > I think Tomasz Wegrzanowski was talking about wiki-source here and
> > not about wiki-html-output. These are 2 different things (input and output).
>
> As long as we allow use of the HTML tags*, we should take them both with
> and without end tags. We should ideally produce valid XHTML from *any*
> given input. If the input is broken, we may not produce what the author
> intended, but we *must* produce something that will pass a validating
> parser.
>
> *(And if we some day decide not to allow them, we should provide
> equivalent functionality and, if possible, automatically convert
> articles to use the newer system at the time the change is made. If
> automatic conversion is not possible, we should make a conscious effort to
> fix anything that's broken.)
>
> -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
>
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