[wp-hackers] XHTML Strict Mode

[Scott Reilly]

For my (now late) contribution to WP Patch Day, I believe I've actually fixed 
most of the WP code related to balancing tags.  There are quite a number of 
situations in which the tag balancer will (a) eat user text before it reaches 
the database, (b) improperly balance tags, (c) not balance tags given a 
certain scenario, (d) try to balance an HTML comment with '</>' (in certain 
scenarios).  

The fixed balancer could also (with a one-line addition) be used to balance 
text prior to <!--more--> upon request.

I'm trying to write up extensive documentation on what changes I made and why 
I made them.  Anyone willing to volunteer to review the code when I'm done 
and/or use it yourself to ensure that my changes didn't just fix the problem 
scenarios I discovered while unbeknownst-to-me breaking other scenarios?

By no means, though, do my changes make it a true XHTML validator.  Merely a 
more fixed and more proper tag balancer, which I guess is part of the road to 
XHTML validity.

-Scott
http://www.coffee2code.com


On Monday 02 August 2004 12:11 pm, Jamie Talbot wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm new to the list and have read most of the archives, but if this a
> repetition sorry!
>
> One of Matt's wishes on the PatchDay Wiki is an XML parser to check
> for post and comment validity.  I was wondering what, if any, work is
> being done in this area.  I've been having a look at some of the bugs
> in Mosquito to do with unbalanced tags, problems with wp-autop and
> errors caused by the use of the 'more' tag.  Although I think there
> are individual solutions to each of these problems, it would probably
> be best to combine them all together and roll out a combined validity
> checker / corrector.
>
> I'd be happy to begin working on this, and wanted to encourage some
> discussion in this area.
>
> So, a few questions:
>
> What should Strict mode mean?  Unbalanced tags only or full blown
> validity checking?  Should the user be alerted or should it be done
> silently?  There is a discussion about what to do with 'more' tags in
> bug 0000098 in Mosquito.  Opinions welcomed on that too...
>
> Is anyone working on this at the moment?  If not, is there anyone who
> wants to collaborate on it?  It could be an involved process, so the
> more the merrier!
>
> Let me know your thoughts...
>
> Jamie.
>