Re: Tidy & PHP5
| From: | Wez Furlong | Date: | Mon, 01 Dec 2003 14:29:06 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Tidy & PHP5 | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.internals |
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+1 from me; very useful for screen scraping as well as validation and
fixing.
--Wez.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ilia Alshanetsky" <ilia@prohost.org>
To: "PHP Internals" <internals@lists.php.net>
Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 1:45 PM
Subject: [PHP-DEV] Tidy & PHP5
> I would like to propose that tidy extension be bundled with PHP 5.
>
> First of all it'll provide an easy means to validate and/or fix HTML input
for
> webforms, which can also help existing functions such as strip_tags(). The
> extension can also be used to reduce HTML output by removing formatting,
> which can be quite significant for large pages (even if compression is
used).
> Tidy can also be used to provide a rapid means for conversion between HTML
> and XHTML and if needed can even handle XML. To those who need to parse
HTML
> it also provides a fairly handy OO API (similar to that of simplexml),
which
> would enable people to write fast HTML parsers in PHP.
>
> Ilia