[Freecats-Dev] HTML support (was: A look at JCAT?)

[Thierry Sourbier]

Let me jump on a comment I saw while quickly browsing through Henri's long
email :).

> - another closely related issue is that JCAT only understands
> well-formed HTML and XML. Due to this, it won't be able to work on at
> least 80% of existing HTML files. This is why we prefer a "dumb" approach.

1. It is easier to have a "dumb" parser read well formed HTML than a "smart"
parser able to read "dumb" HTML. Indeed for malformed HTML it is not only of
tags being misplaced or missing, but also knowing what is a tag and what is
not e.g. : "<b> This character "<" can mess up everything </b>").

2. Most malformed HTML files can be made compliant to the standard by
running them through Tidy. See http://tidy.sourceforge.net/. In a web l10n
product I worked on before Tidy was part of the workflow.

> Thierry, what would you think about establishing a contact for us with
Yves?

I've already pointed him out to the project home page.

Cheers,
Thierry.








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