Hi Gisle,
Hi list,
maybe you have heard of HTML Tidy, a free utility by Dave Raggett to
repair, cleanup and pretty-print HTML and XHTML documents. Please refer
to
http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett/tidy/
for more information on HTML Tidy.
HTML Tidy is currently maintained by a group of developers including
myself at Sourceforge. One of our goals is to create a free-standing
C-library out of Tidy to ease it's reuse in other applications, see
http://sourceforge.net/projects/tidy/
for more information on this project.
I'm going to write an Perl XS interface to this library [1] and the best
name I could think of was
HTML::Parser::Tidy
HTML::Tidy is already taken and something like HTML::PerlTidy implies,
that this cleans up some perl code. I'll try to provide an interface
compatible [2] to HTML::Parser 3.x so that applications built upon
HTML::Parser will be able to use Tidy as an alternative. My current
module provides a simple (XML::Parser::Perl)SAX interface so that I can
use the module to build up a DOM tree for e.g. XML::DOM or XML::XPath.
I'm currently considering if it's worth to expose the whole the DOM-like
functions of HTML Tidy...
However, I'd like to ask if the module name is ok for you, Gisle, and
for others or if one of you as a better suggestion.
The module will be maintained at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ptidy
(where you'll currently find nothing but empty pages :-)
If some people are interested in this project, feel free to subscribe to
the [EMAIL PROTECTED], but be aware that I'll bug you
with questions about the interface/documentation/etc.pp. ;-)
[1] I already did something like that in april this year, but I came to
the conclusion, that HTML Tidy should be a real library to use all
it's features in other applications easily, so we started that
project.
[2] To some extent, some features aren't possible.
Thanks for your comments,
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