HTML Tag Cleaner Fails

[Mark Schonewille]

Exactly, Bill. Nothing bizarre about it. Thank you for looking up the  
reference.

In reply to Dar's list of applications that do or don't: Apple's  
TextEdit application behaves exactly like Revolution fields in this  
respect.

Best,

Mark

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Op 8-aug-2006, om 12:56 heeft Bill Marriott het volgende geschreven:

> Except that <title> has a defined, special meaning that Rev knows  
> about --
> which is to specify the title of a document -- and that is by  
> definition
> distinct from the content. The <foo> tag however, is undefined.
>
> I believe that it's appropriate to "strip" out the information  
> between title
> tags and to preserve the information between "foo" tags.
>
> By reference, see:
>
> http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html3/HTMLandSGML.html
>
> "The behavior of WWW applications reading HTML documents and  
> discovering tag
> or attribute names which they do not understand should be to behave as
> though, in the case of a tag, the whole tag had not been there but its
> content had, or in the case of an attribute, that the attribute had  
> not been
> present."
>
> In this case, Rev "understands" the title tag, and correctly does not
> include it in the content. It does not understand the "foo" tag and
> therefore renders it as if the tag were not there.
>
>
> Dar Scott wrote:
>>
>> Actually, Dan is right.  It is bizarre!
>>
>> My word processor doesn't do it.  My calculator doesn't do it.   
>> The  IP
>> address field in preferences doesn't do it.
>>
>> A Revolution field is not a browser and it is not even an HTML   
>> displayer.
>> It has a simple html-like markup view that covers the   
>> capabilities of of
>> the field.  Though it is similar to HTML, htmlText  doesn't even  
>> attempt
>> to be like HTML even in little things like  representing whitespace.
>>
>> The title is way outside the scope of what htmlText does.
>>
>> Stripping <title> and not <foo> is bizarre.
>>
>> It might be a clue that htmlText will become closer to HTML, but I
>> suspect it is an ancient artifact.
>
>