Grammer for crappy HTML.

[TLOlczyk]

Sounds kind of weird, but it's kind of simple.

I am tired of looking for a C/C++/shared object that parses HTML.
So I decided to either write my own or create a "preprocessor"
( or maybe coprocessor ) for Tidy.

In either case there is something I need and that is
a "Grammar of bad HTML", by which I mean, some sort of
description of all the kinds of ugly things that a person can
do to a document to make it noncompliant but
still make it displayable by a browser.



The reply-to email address is (e-mail address removed).
This is an address I ignore.
To reply via email, remove 2002 and change yahoo to
interaccess,

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Thaddeus L. Olczyk, PhD

There is a difference between
*thinking* you know something,
and *knowing* you know something.

 

[rf]

Sounds kind of weird, but it's kind of simple.

I am tired of looking for a C/C++/shared object that parses HTML.
So I decided to either write my own or create a "preprocessor"
( or maybe coprocessor ) for Tidy.

In either case there is something I need and that is
a "Grammar of bad HTML", by which I mean, some sort of
description of all the kinds of ugly things that a person can
do to a document to make it noncompliant but
still make it displayable by a browser.

Pick just about any site out there.

Look at the HTML.

 

[Mark Parnell]

Pick just about any site out there.

Like http://www.target.com/

Look at the HTML.

If you dare.

 

[Adrienne]

Gazing into my crystal ball I observed Mark Parnell

Like http://www.target.com/


If you dare.

My eyes! My eyes!

 

[Whitecrest]

The reply-to email address is (e-mail address removed).
This is an address I ignore.
To reply via email, remove 2002 and change yahoo to
interaccess,

Do people really go through all that trouble to reply to you?