On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 5:48 PM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote: > I've changed my mind a bit. > > * I'd like to keep both XHTML and HTML parsers. They would both user > the HTMLCleaner though to fix any mistakes that the users could have > done. However it's more sensible for an API user to use the XHTML 1.0 > parser to parse XHTML 1.0 content than having to use the HTML 4.01 > parser >
+1 > The rest stays, i.e. a single html macro. > > Thanks > -Vincent > > On Dec 15, 2008, at 3:13 PM, Vincent Massol wrote: > >> Hi devs, >> >> We currently have 2 parsers and 2 macros depending on whether the >> content is HTML 4.01 or XHTML 1.0. This is way too complex for users. >> In addition the XHTML parser/macro expect the content to have the >> DOCTYPE declaration + a root element which make them even harder to >> use. >> >> I propose to simply all this by doing the following: >> * A single HTML parser >> * A single html macro >> * The HTMLCleaner is always called thus transforming HTML into clean >> XHTML and not doing anything in case of clean XHTML (actually it'll >> add the DOCTYPE and a root element if it's not there) >> >> This simplifies code, documentation and more importantly its usage for >> our end users. >> >> Since the xhtml macro was released not long ago I'd rather not go >> through a deprecation period and instead commit the changes above for >> 1.7.1 (with a nice message in the release notes). >> >> I've started working on this (should be finished tonight). Please >> shout if you don't agree. >> >> Thanks >> -Vincent > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > -- Thomas Mortagne _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
