Re: robustness of html error handling and plucker

2003-01-30 Thread MJ Ray
Blake Winton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You say that as if it's an either/or choice. If Eugene wants to work on making plucker more robust, who are we to stop him? [...] Oh yes, plucker's Free Software, so if any new developer wants to concentrate on that, then go ahead. I just didn't want

Re: robustness of html error handling and plucker

2003-01-29 Thread MJ Ray
Eugene Y. Vasserman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] how feasable it is to have plucker handle obvious html errors intelligently. [...] It's rather difficult to detect how to handle these obvious errors. Normally, it means that the site authors' are depending on some display logic error of

RE: robustness of html error handling and plucker

2003-01-29 Thread Blake Winton
Eugene Y. Vasserman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: how feasable it is to have plucker handle obvious html errors intelligently. It's a compromise: I'd rather Plucker developers spent time on improving functionality for real web sites (ie ones that are valid and follow guidelines) than tried to

RE: robustness of html error handling and plucker

2003-01-29 Thread David A. Desrosiers
Having said that, perhaps a better idea would be to have the parser automatically call tidy, if it's available, so that we could leverage other people's work. I would prefer that to be a selective option, not mandatory. That being said, anything that makes Plucker better, I'm

RE: robustness of html error handling and plucker

2003-01-29 Thread Blake Winton
Having said that, perhaps a better idea would be to have the parser automatically call tidy, if it's available, so that we could leverage other people's work. I would prefer that to be a selective option, not mandatory. With an entry in the config file. Sounds great to me. That being