Re: Using tidy for editing html

Hi,
Thanks for the quick response.

> That's correct, Tidy does not expose such functionality. Also note that
> the read functionality is not complete, you cannot access the content of
> text nodes, for example.

I am using GetNodeText() (tidyNodeGetText() in C) to get the 
content of the text nodes and it seems to work fine.
Is there a problem with using that?
or did you mean something different by content?

>> Essentially I want to know is there any inherent restriction in 
>> the design that would make adding functions like NewNode, 
>> CloneNode and RemoveNode to the C++ classes a bad idea?
> 
> Well, Tidy is not really designed to enable this, so you would need some
> hacks to make Tidy expose this in a good manner. It seems the current
> developers are neither very interested in this and not committed to
> maintaining such functionality. It should be possible, but you are
> generally better off with simply converting Tidy's internal DOM to some
> other DOM structure.

I was thinking of using htmltidy to get to XHTML and then using 
Xerces but it seems to be a very convoluted and inefficient way 
to go.

I'll examine the internals of the parser in more detail now that 
I know for certain it doesn't do what I want out of the box.

        Thanks, Vin