+1 and +1.

JV.

On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 3:13 PM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> 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
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