[Privoxy-devel] tidy -indent -wrap can break <pre> formatting

Fabian Keil fk at fabiankeil.de
Sun Mar 18 08:39:25 UTC 2018


Lee <ler762 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 3/17/18, Fabian Keil <fk at fabiankeil.de> wrote:
> > Lee <ler762 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >  
> >> On 3/15/18, Fabian Keil <fk at fabiankeil.de> wrote:  
> >> > Lee <ler762 at gmail.com> wrote:  
> >> >>
> >> >> Just how much manual editing did you do to the generated .html
> >> >> files?  
> >> >
> >> > I generally didn't manually edit the HTML files.  
> >>
> >> Why use tidy then?  Seems like the only reason to make the html files
> >> human-readable (the docbook sgml -> html results are pretty horrible
> >> to look at) would be to edit them.  
> >
> > tidy is used to turn the pages into valid HTML.
> >
> > At least in the past the Docbook toolchain wasn't
> > able to generate valid HTML by itself.  
> 
> I've been feeding the docbook generated html to the w3 validator
>   https://validator.w3.org/#validate_by_upload
> and so far the only error has been tables inside of paragraphs.
> Apparently this is an error:
>   <p><table> ... </table></p>
>   Error: No p element in scope but a p end tag seen.
> 
> Quick test: remove a <para> from around a <programlisting> in
> developer.sgml <!-- para _LR_ -->
> <programlisting>
> /* This is not a local include, but requires a path element. */
> #include <sys/fileName.h>
> </programlisting>
> <!-- /para _LR_ -->
> 
> make dok & the validator now reports one less error.
> 
> I can work on removing <para>s from around elements that get turned
> into <table> if you'd like

Sounds good to me.

Fabian
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