How to use tidy to "beautify" xhtml ?

[Andrzej Adam Filip]

Could you post some recommendation/advices which options should be used when using tidy to beautify xhtml ?

It seems that "wrapped" xhtml produced by standards settings is not "liked" by some search engines .

e.g. tidy inserted line breaks in attributes after opening "

.....<a href="
http://example.com/"> ...

[google parsed it with no problems]

BTW Can you recommend another free tool to beautify xhtml ?

URL(s):
http://tidy.sourceforge.net/

 

[Chris Huebsch]

Andrzej Adam Filip (Tue, 01 Jun 2004 20:34:00 +0000):

BTW Can you recommend another free tool to beautify xhtml ?

xmllint --format --html

Chris

 

[Chris Green]

It seems that "wrapped" xhtml produced by standards settings is not "liked" by some search engines .

e.g. tidy inserted line breaks in attributes after opening "

....<a href="
http://example.com/"> ...

I have a ~/tidy.conf with the contents:

wrap: 0

and run tidy with:

tidy -i -m -config ~/tidy.conf file.xhtml. I don't like the wrapping just because it makes nesting difficult.

My biggest problem with tidy is that I use www.clearsilver.net for a templating system and it doesn't support that kind of tag markup <?cs ..... ?>

 

[Andrzej Adam Filip]

I have a ~/tidy.conf with the contents:

wrap: 0

and run tidy with:

tidy -i -m -config ~/tidy.conf file.xhtml. I don't like the wrapping just because it makes nesting difficult.

I want to get wrapping :-(
I use wider than default "wrap space" (--wrap 120).

It seems that "--indent-attributes yes" fixed the problem.

My biggest problem with tidy is that I use www.clearsilver.net for a templating system and it doesn't support that kind of tag markup <?cs .... ?>

 

[Bjoern Hoehrmann]

* Andrzej Adam Filip wrote in comp.text.xml:

Could you post some recommendation/advices which options should be used when using tidy to beautify xhtml ?

It seems that "wrapped" xhtml produced by standards settings is not "liked" by some search engines .

e.g. tidy inserted line breaks in attributes after opening "

....<a href="
http://example.com/"> ...

Are you certain it's not actually before the " as in

<a href=
"..."

?

 

[Andrzej Adam Filip]

* Andrzej Adam Filip wrote in comp.text.xml:

Are you certain it's not actually before the " as in

<a href=
"..."

?

You are right.

I was mislead by "Page Source" of Mozilla 1.6. The actual file was formatted as you wrote. I have found it when trying to post "wrong format" extract from the actual file.

I have accused tidy of another program "sins" :-(