Ola Berg wrote:
> From: "John Moylan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 
>>You probably need to preprocess your HTML with tidy before you introduce 
>>it to Cocoon.
> 
> 
> Well, according to the sitemap in the cocoon dist (2.0.2), jtidy is involved in the 
>HTML generator.

Yes, correct.

> Yes, preprocessing is a necessity. But I need it preprocessed live and direct in the 
>pipeline by Cocoon, as the bad HTML is generated by legacy scripts that no one dares 
>to touch, just wrap using Cocoon.
> 
> Either way: a HeavyDutyMrProperHtmlGenerator that fixes this using some heavy 
>tidy-stuff should be useful. I understand if the normal HTMLGenerator don't want to 
>waste cycles on handling "HTML" that never should have been written anyway, but if 
>you _know_ you have to deal with pages generated by FrontPage0.6 or perl scripts done 
>by interns in the summer of '96, I think the option should be available. 
> 
> Does such a beast exist somewhere?

HTMLGenerator uses JTidy directly, without making assumptions itself.
If you can use JTidy to work for you, it should work - or can be easily 
made to work - with HTMLGenerator too.

> If not, I intend to write one, as the problem at our company needs to be solved 
>about this yesterday :-)

Look here, maybe it's the right time to ditch tidy entirely

http://www.apache.org/~andyc/neko/doc/html/index.html

> BTW: the example I provided is actually cleaner than much of the code I need Cocoon 
>to deal with.

:-O

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Nicola Ken Barozzi                   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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