Hi David,
that is really a good idea, your suggestion no. 3!
We could extend the servlet such that a html developer could upload a html file and the
servlet will run it through XMLC and show the resulting page. That way even 3rd party
html designer could easily view their results. Even though this is not much more than
using HTML Kit on the desktop, is is probably much better accepted and easier to use.
thanks for the idea,
Arno
David Li wrote:
Hi Arno,
I can understand you concern. I have worked with html developers in
many projects and it's difficult to tell html developers what's wrong
with their HTML page if it looks correct on screen. We mostly end up
turning off the warning in Tidy.
There are several solution to this problem and we could look at each
of them:
1. Have Tidy to ignore the invalid HTML and parse the rest.
This would be difficult. First, Tidy (consider the origin and the name)
is to make sure the HTML is correctly according to spec. Second, how to
differentiate an area to be "ignored" and an area to be "correct" in the
pages are difficult.
2. Make sure the HTML developers produce "correct" HTML.
Well, difficult as we all have experience. Ask them to read the Tidy
output would be difficult. Some of the warning are not really necessary
to be corrected like missing 'summary' on the table.
3. Let HTML developers inspects the XMLC output VISUALLY in a browser.
(shameless promotion of the new XMLC 2.2 dynamic loading features here!
Download it NOW!!!)
XMLC 2.2 enables the loading of HTML page into XMLC without being
compiled. Base on this feature, I have written a Preview servlet that
the Web developers can use to look at their pages and see in the browser
as how the pages would looked after being processed by XMLC.
I just put the Preview servlet on the XMLC 2.2's alpha release page. The
URL is:
http://homepage.mac.com/taweili/XMLC.html
The file name is called 'preview-example.tar.gz' and it only works with
XMLC 2.2 alpha.
David Li
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