"Jitse Niesen"
<jitse.niesen(a)gmail.com>
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On 2/11/06, Brion Vibber
<brion(a)pobox.com> wrote:
The optional use of tidy is a temporary hack that
got put in rather
than fix up the parser's own HTML balancing code, which is a
horrible piece of crap that I wrote in 2002 when I didn't know what
the hell I was doing. :)
If you'd like try rewriting it so it balances end tags properly,
detects illegal nesting cases, and understands MathML, that would be
super awesome.
Hmm, I think it would be easier for me to change tidy so that it
understands MathML. Why do you want to get rid of tidy?
Don't beat me (with the big stick): but could tidy be kept?
It is currently co-abused for the CSS trick described at