Re: Two questions about HelpViewer

Patrick Cardona wrote:
> On 2025-11-11 00:23:05 +0100 Riccardo Mottola
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Since we are not pure XML nor HTML the results are interesting,
> > however the Internal parser seems now quite usable with some care in
> > writing the xlp.

Humans writing XML or XML-alike language directly should always do
that with utmost care.  I find writing XML very unpleasant, but YMMV.
Ditto wrt reading.

> > The issue is that the whole chain may not be UTF-8 clean and that
> > the XML parser is called twice, first from HandlerStructureXLP then
> > from TextFormatterXLP.

You could simply not handle this case and declare such documents
invalid/broken with the proper error message.

> > GSHTML assumes Latin 1 if not specified.

That's a poor default these days.

> I confirm the best choice is the internal Parser.

Likewise.

> tests:
> Removing previously all the <meta charset="utf-8" /> in all the .xlp
> files.

Worth noting that if these are retained HelpViewer from SVN trunk
displays nothing.

> 1) without changing defaults

> So No Parser set?

The default is Internal if it's not set.

> All seems correct (accented characters in titles and texts, in legends)

Confirmed.

> 2) Parser Internal set

That's the same as above.

> 3) Parser GSHTML set

> Accented characters were badly rendered.

Same for me.

> 4) Parser Sloppy

> Accented characters well interpreted.
> Some unexpected double quotes after some titles.

Not only quotes but opening tags as well, plus missing text, like:

Tags Disponibles
# The entire paragpraph after the title is not displayed, just this:
'<b> :

<b>votre texte en