[XML-SIG] HtmlBuilder

[Jeff.Johnson@icn.siemens.com]

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?

Example:
<b><i>Bold italic text with end tags in wrong order.</b></i>

Actually, I guess the ignore_mismatched_end_tags will fix this specific
error.  When the </b> tag is read it will pop off the open <i> tag as it
always did, then the </i> tag will be ignored with the new fix.  Never mind
:)

Thanks for adding this to the CVS tree!  I've already told my HTML hacker
friends that I can now work with and fix their buggy web pages for them.  A
few months back I swore to them that Python XML was the greatest tool I
knew of to change their banner code but then I couldn't read half of the
files due to bad end tags.

Cheers,
Jeff







"Andrew M. Kuchling" <akuchlin@cnri.reston.va.us> on 03/08/99 12:31:03 PM

To:   xml-sig@python.org
cc:    (bcc: Jeff Johnson/Service/ICN)
Subject:  Re: [XML-SIG] HtmlBuilder




Jeff.Johnson@icn.siemens.com writes:
  [on ignoring bogus end tags]
>I like the idea of allowing the user to toggle raising exceptions or
>ignoring the error.

Indeed.  Here's a proposal for the interface:

b = HTMLBuilder( ignore_mismatched_end_tags = 1 )

     (This would be implemented by allowing keyword arguments to
the constructor, and saving a copy of the keyword dictionary.  That
allows for new options in future, and saves the constructor from
having lots of lines like
self.ignore_mismatched_end_tags = ignore_mismatched_end_tags .)

     The default behaviour would be to raise an exception, which is
in keeping with Python's general philosophy.

--
A.M. Kuchling            http://starship.python.net/crew/amk/
Athens built the Acropolis. Corinth was a commercial city, interested in
purely materialistic things. Today we admire Athens, visit it, preserve the
old temples, yet we hardly ever set foot in Corinth.
    -- Harold Urey


_______________________________________________
XML-SIG maillist  -  XML-SIG@python.org
http://www.python.org/mailman/listinfo/xml-sig