HTML-tidy, JTidy.HTML (was Re: unformatted XSLT output)

[Sean Champ <s-...@postoffice.pacbell.net>]

hello.


tom stuart wrote:

> Maybe I'm missing the point, but I'd like to generate clean, controlled
> HTML (or XHTML, preferably) from XML content,

> I'm trying to turn tidy XHTML out of my XSL, which works fine with Xalan -
> when I don't use one of the formatter switches. In Cocoon, though, the
> default (HTML) formatter insists on stripping newlines, turning <br />
> into <br>, and so on.

1) I don't think you're missing any points, there, and I'm glad to know
to be aware of those problems, whenever I finally get some transforms
done here.
   ("author-side parsing" = the result document needs to be legible, on
the server-side)


2)  "HTML-tidy" might be worth-a-download
    (it has some sort of an "asXML" option, for tidyOf.XHTML
	and can reformat HTML to XHTML. )

	http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett/tidy/

   or, for a Java version:
	
	http://www3.sympatico.ca/ac.quick/jtidy.html

    (which also comes with a JavaBean of it, apparently. 
      [as if I know what a "JavaBean" is, yet]. 
     and has DOM support, though it doesn't say "level 1" or "level 2") 


<sidebar>

(it looks like the non-java version of HTML-tidy might benefit from a
slightly modified algorithm on the line-wrappings 

 (eg, it has a tendency to split :

       attribute="attValue" 

: after the equals-sign, which doesn't look good.)

   ...but maybe this can be fixed with relative ease, on the java
version, if it is also an issue there.)


</sidebar>




==>  might JTidy deserve a spot in the CVS-tree?








tom stuart wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Is it possible to get Cocoon to return plain, unformatted, XSL transformed
> output; namely, the same as what I'd get with:
> 
>         java org.apache.xalan.xslt.Process -in content.xml -xsl style.xsl
> 
> Maybe I'm missing the point, but I'd like to generate clean, controlled
> HTML (or XHTML, preferably) from XML content, and I can't seem to get it
> out of the XSLT process without it getting somehow munged by a formatter.
> Are the formatters mandatory? Do they represent a key component in the
> concept of Cocoon?
> 
> I'm trying to turn tidy XHTML out of my XSL, which works fine with Xalan -
> when I don't use one of the formatter switches. In Cocoon, though, the
> default (HTML) formatter insists on stripping newlines, turning <br />
> into <br>, and so on. Makes sense, but I don't want that this time. Using
> <?cocoon-format type="text/xml"?> doesn't seem to have any effect at *all*
> on the output - but maybe I'm having a cacheing problem.
> 
> Is there an XHTML formatter? Is there a dummy formatter, so that I can get
> straight, fresh-from-Xalan content out of Cocoon?
> 
> Am I, heh, just missing the point here? I have my suspicions.
> 
> Cheers,
> -Tom
> 
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