Help Wrapping HTMLTidy in LCB

Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.com
Fri Nov 22 15:24:11 EST 2019


Trevor DeVore wrote:

 > While looking at solutions for converting HTML into XHTML that can be
 > parsed by revXML I decided to test HTMLTidy which has an option to
 > output the input as XHTML. While I could bundle up the tidy command
 > line tool and include it with my app, I prefer to wrap things up in
 > LCB if possible.

Is conversion to XHTML the way to go?

I've tried using the XML external to parse even RSS files -- ostensibly 
pure XML -- only to find it choke on some of them.  I've gone back to 
hand-crafted pull-parsers.

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  Richard Gaskin
  Fourth World Systems
  Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
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