Re: decent unicode capable web app editor

From: Edward H. Trager (ehtrager@umich.edu)
Date: Thu Jun 17 2004 - 10:07:03 CDT

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    On Thursday 2004.06.17 00:46:31 -0400, John Cowan wrote:
    > Edward H. Trager scripsit:
    >
    > > What about vim (vi clone: http://www.vim.org). I just converted
    > > a very large UTF-8-encoded HTML document (more than 15000
    > > lines) to standards-compliant XHTML-1.0 and found the advanced
    > > regular-expression-based substitution facilities in vi(m) absolutely
    > > indispensible for adding all of the closing tags that XML requires
    > > which were missing in my original document.
    >
    > HTML Tidy or TagSoup would probably have served you better, rather than
    > groveling over the code bit by bit. (HTML Tidy can do more cleaning,
    > but it sometimes loops or delivers garbage if the HTML is sufficiently
    > broken. TagSoup never gives up and never loops, but doesn't know
    > as much about HTML.)

    Actually I did use Tidy too.

    >
    > --
    > Said Agatha Christie / To E. Philips Oppenheim John Cowan
    > "Who is this Hemingway? / Who is this Proust? cowan@ccil.org
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    > This neopostrealist / Rabble?" she groused. http://www.ccil.org/cowan
    > --author unknown to me; any suggestions?



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