Generate valid XHTML

[Anna (archive)]

Hi all.
I have probably a rather stupid question.
If there is an HTML document, XML-formed using JTidy,
is there any tool to convert it to valid XHTML?
I.e. so that all the tags and attribute values will be XHTML compliant. For example, if the original document has following snippet:
<p><div>text</div></p> (which is not valid XHTML), the output would be something like <p><span>text</span></p> (which is valid XHTML).

Thank you very much for help.

Anna

 

[Bjoern Hoehrmann]

* Anna wrote in comp.text.xml:

If there is an HTML document, XML-formed using JTidy,
is there any tool to convert it to valid XHTML?
I.e. so that all the tags and attribute values will be XHTML compliant. For example, if the original document has following snippet:
<p><div>text</div></p> (which is not valid XHTML), the output would be something like <p><span>text</span></p> (which is valid XHTML).

Well, I am not that familiar with JTidy, but Tidy attempts to do that to some extend. Current Tidy would turn that fragment into

<div>text</div>
<br />
<br />

which is bad but valid. If you specify the --drop-proprietary-attributes config option, it would even drop all non-W3C attributes from all elements, Tidy even tries to convert some known proprietary elements to other elements, CSS, characters, ... whatever might fit. In fact, if the result with --drop-proprietary-attributes enabled is not valid, it is probably a bug and should be reported (this does not apply to invalid attribute values for valid attributes, Tidy fixes some, but quite a number cannot be fixed, just dropped, but there is currently no config option to do that.)