Re: Using TidyLib as an HTML parser
John Snelson <[email protected]>
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I've uploaded my patch that implements tidyNodeGetValue(), which can be found here: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1877642&group_id=27659&atid=390965 John Arnaud Desitter wrote: > On 22/01/2008, John Snelson <[email protected]> wrote: >> Arnaud Desitter wrote: >>> On 22/01/2008, John Snelson <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> Is there a better way to do what I want? I would be quite happy to >>>> implement a new API method to do this if that's required - does anyone >>>> else think this would be useful? >>> Please refer to http://tidy.sf.net/issue/1636028. >>> Your contribution to a new API would be welcome. Please post it using the >>> tidy patch tracker. >> Thanks for the pointer. From the bug report linked, it's not obvious >> what the correct way to fix this is. Should I change tidyNodeGetText() >> to return the unescaped value of the node, or should I add a new method? > >>From the bug reports, please add a new function. > >> Here's what I propose - I'll add a new method: >> >> Bool tidyNodeGetValue( TidyDoc tdoc, TidyNode tnod, TidyBuffer* buf ); >> >> For attribute, text, comment, and processing instruction nodes this >> method will fill the buffer with the value of the node. The value will >> be unescaped, and not serialized (no "<!--" or "<?" etc.). >> >> Some questions: >> >> 1) Are there other node types the method should work for? >> 2) Should I respect the specified output encoding, or use UTF-8? (For >> instance, the tidyNodeGetName() function always returns UTF-8) > > Could you add that to include/tidy.h please ? > >> 3) What should I do about unrepresentable characters? > > IMO, UTF8 is a good choice. Bjorn or others may comment. > Because it is a new function, there is no backward compatibility issue > so it can be modified until it feels right. -- John Snelson, Oracle Corporation http://snelson.org.uk/john Berkeley DB XML: http://www.oracle.com/database/berkeley-db/xml XQilla: http://xqilla.sourceforge.net