Ross Gardler wrote: > David Crossley wrote: > > > >We had a discussion recently on dev about using a > >final transformer step at the end to tidy the > >html output into consistent format. Or perhaps > >that is the job of the html serializer. Dunno. > > > >Anyway should we do that? Users would get one big > >change after they upgraded tp 0.8 and thereafter > >the changes would be minimal and output would be > >consistent. A side-benefit is that it is human-readable. > > How about we do this as part of the Dispatcher work. There would be no > "big change" for those not moving from Dispatcher and it can be another > of the "selling" points for the new publication.
It will not need more selling points :-) > Of course this means there would be a reasonably long wait for it to > happen. Whereas the transformer/serializer approach could be done > immediately. Good idea, but i reckon it would be better to add it too the skins too. I will wait a while to hear objections, otherwise i will attempt it for skins. Perhaps making it configurable would be better: tidy, none, compact (i.e. collapse-whitespace). -David
