Re: Large SGML Cleanup

On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 10:24 AM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> wrote:
> On tis, 2010-11-02 at 22:56 -0400, Josh Kupershmidt wrote:
>> This HTML fails validation, as one isn't supposed to be stuffing
>> tables inside <p> nodes. The attached patch fixes all the instances of
>> this I could find, by closing out <para> nodes before beginning lists
>> and tables.
>
> Um, this is like moving around the C code because the compiler generates
> invalid assembly code.  Fix the compiler.

I agree with this sentiment.

> That said, we have the following in stylesheet.dsl:
>
> ;; Block elements are allowed in PARA in DocBook, but not in P in
> ;; HTML.  With %fix-para-wrappers% turned on, the stylesheets attempt
> ;; to avoid putting block elements in HTML P tags by outputting
> ;; additional end/begin P pairs around them.
> (define %fix-para-wrappers% #t)

Hrm, where is the code behind fix-para-wrappers? I don't see it inside
openjade, or anywhere inside Postgres?

> So evidently someone thought of this before and put something in to
> prevent some/many/most cases.
>
> In general, I think the more efficient way to address this overall
> problem is to run the resulting HTML through tidy and be done with it.

Hey, this actually works surprisingly well on a few files I tested.