Re: merging nested span

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Charlie" <[email protected]>
To: "Bjoern Hoehrmann" <[email protected]>
Cc: "Arnaud Desitter" <[email protected]>; 
<[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2005 3:13 AM
Subject: Re: [Tidy-dev] merging nested span


>I would just drop the warning for nested spans.  The warning might make 
>sense if all attributes match exactly.  But the test doesn't seem worth the 
>effort.

The warning has been dropped for nested span.  So 
http://tidy.sf.net/bug/1079820
is now solved and closed.

My question is different. I opened a feature request: 
http://tidy.sf.net/feature/1168193

 Would be merging nested span useful ? The code would be in clean.c and
it is a one-liner to implement #2 below.
The choices are:
#1 do nothing because it is not worth it.
#2 merge nested spans with the same algorithm as merge-divs in "auto"
mode. No config option to control it.
#3 merge nested spans with the same algorithm as merge-divs with all
modes (we add a new option "merge-spans" similar to "merge-divs")

Any opinion ?

> At 05:04 PM 3/21/2005 +0100, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote:
>>* Arnaud Desitter wrote:
>> >Should we merge SPANs as we do for DIVs (with a merge-spans option)?
>>
>>Do we have feature requests to this effect or would we rather do this
>>for completeness? I am not sure there is lots of unintentionally nested
>>spans on the web, merging divs was rather to accomodate word cleanup
>>which generated unintentionally nested divs, IIRC.



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