HTML Tag Cleaner Fails

[Martin Baxter]

Dave Cragg wrote:
> 
> On 9 Aug 2006, at 11:36, Dar Scott wrote:
> 
>>
>> I give up.  You guys are right.  The htmlText renders HTML.
> 
> I think you might be accused of twisting people's words again. :-) The 
> above description suggests that it renders html well. I didn't see 
> anybody making that claim.
> 
> Better perhaps...
> 
>   The htmlText renders html kinda.
> 
> Cheers
> Dave

I'm at a loose end, let's waste a bit more bandwidth...

My take here is that the fact that the htmltext does as you say above 
"renders html kinda." is a side-effect of its true purpose. I see its 
purpose as to allow access to RR field text formatting information in a 
text-only form that can be readily understood, stored and manipulated.
This is a more user-friendly alternative to a binary stylerun for 
instance. A pseudo-html syntax was adopted to implement this, which has 
the side-effect that some html can be rendered in an RR field "kinda".

I agree with others that the name of the property probably misleads more 
often than it explains.

Martin Baxter