Re: spiffy patch attempt (was Re: [Chicken-users] Minor issue with spiffy's sxml->html)

[Dan Muresan]

On 12/31/06, John Cowan <address@hidden> wrote:
> A suggestion for all this introduction of newlines:  instead of
> adding newlines after end-tags and worrying about which ones can
> and cannot have a problem with it, why not add a newline *within*
> the end-tag, thus:  "</b\n>"?  That's a general solution and
> simplifies the problem greatly.

While that's valid HTML, it will easily confuse some non-compliant
HTML parsers (I tried that and had problems in at least one piece of
proprietary software).

Personally, I'd vote for no newlines at all. Humans can use 'tidy
-indent' to reformat code.

Dan Muresan
http://alumnus.caltech.edu/~muresan/