Re: stripping white space?

Well, you can simply look for a closing bracket (>) followed by only white space characters (space, tab, return) followed by an open bracket (<) and, if there's a match, strip out the white space in between them. That would turn: <tr> <td> into just <tr><td> You'd have to check for a bit more, such as <pre> and <code> tags, but it's not an unreasonable regex to write. What I am more concerned about is; I'm assuming everything would have to be encased within <?php ?> tags, meaning all HTML would have to be properly escaped, etc. *that* would be a major pain, so I hope I'm overlooking something. --kurt ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Lambert - WhiteCrown Networks" <chris@whitecrown.net> To: "Kurt Lieber" <php@internalcombustion.com> Sent: Monday, July 09, 2001 10:11 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] stripping white space? > Nothing can _easily_ do this, as HTML puts formatting and content on the > same page. You can strip new lines, you can strip tabs, and you can strip > consecutive spaces, but there's no way to tell "<tr> <td>" from > "Hello > World!" > > /* Chris Lambert, CTO - chris@whitecrown.net > WhiteCrown Networks - More Than White Hats > Web Application Security - www.whitecrown.net > */ > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Kurt Lieber <php@internalcombustion.com> > To: <mukulsabharwal@yahoo.com>; <php-general@lists.php.net> > Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2001 1:14 AM > Subject: Re: [PHP] stripping white space? > > > | nope -- I want to completely suppress any extraneous white space > characters > | (tabs, spaces, etc.) in the HTML as it's being delivered to the client. > So, > | where your source file might look like: > | > | <table> > | <tr> > | <td> > | Hello World! > | </td> > | <tr> > | </table> > | > | The client will receive the HTML as: > | > | <table><tr><td>Hello World!</td></tr></table> > | > | all on one big long line. But your source file maintains the original > | formatting for easy readability. > | > | I'm guessing the answer is no, PHP can't (easily) do this but I just > thought > | I'd check. > | > | --kurt > | ----- Original Message ----- > | From: "Mukul Sabharwal" <mukulsabharwal@yahoo.com> > | To: "Kurt Lieber" <php@internalcombustion.com>; > <php-general@lists.php.net> > | Sent: Monday, July 09, 2001 10:04 PM > | Subject: Re: [PHP] stripping white space? > | > | > | > Hi, > | > > | > I take that you simply want to remove ALL whitespaces > | > from a data block (variable). > | > > | > you could simply use str_replace(" ", "", $var); > | > > | > > | > > | > --- Kurt Lieber <php@internalcombustion.com> wrote: > | > > Is there a way using PHP to easily strip white space > | > > out of an html page as > | > > it's being sent to the client. That is to say, the > | > > page that we as > | > > developers work on is nicely formatted, indented, > | > > etc. but when it's sent > | > > out to the client, PHP will remove all the extra > | > > white space both to > | > > obfuscate the code and reduce the size a bit. > | > > > | > > For anyone who knows Cold Fusion, I'm looking for > | > > the PHP equivalent of the > | > > "Suppress whitespace by default" option in the Cold > | > > Fusion Server > | > > Administrator. > | > > > | > > (NOTE: I'm not looking for a discussion on the > | > > merits of stripping vs. not > | > > stripping white space characters or whether or not > | > > it really does any > | > > good -- I just want to know if it can be done easily > | > > using PHP) > | > > > | > > Thanks. > | > > > | > > --kurt > | > > > | > > > | > > -- > | > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > | > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > | > > php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > | > > For additional commands, e-mail: > | > > php-general-help@lists.php.net > | > > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: > | > > php-list-admin@lists.php.net > | > > > | > > | > > | > ===== > | > ********************************* > | > http://www.geocities.com/mimodit > | > ********************************* > | > > | > __________________________________________________ > | > Do You Yahoo!? > | > Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail > | > http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ > | > > | > -- > | > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > | > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > | > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > | > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > | > > | > > | > | > | -- > | PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > | To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > | For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > | To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > | > | > | > >