May I invite you to check http://satyam.com.ar/pht/? This is a project I
started some time ago to help me produced HTML in a more clean and efficient
way. Usually, producing good HTML involves running a sample output through
some HTML validator or looking at the HTML and checking it out by hand,
which, of course, requires good formatting to make it understandable. In
the case of too dynamic HTML (meaning, output can vary widely) it is
impossible to produce enough samples of all the possible outputs to get them
checked out.
So, my idea was to embed HTML into the language itself so that the final
output could be checked at 'compile time' and even before, using the
standard tools provided by the IDE (even just matching braces goes a long
way into checking for missmatched HTML tags).
The samples page (http://satyam.com.ar/pht/sample.htm) show several
examples.
I think that a tool such as this one might avoid any concern about tidying
up HTML since, after all, most of the checking could be done at the PHP
source level. Further development (which I have not started yet) would
lead to automatic verification against DTDs or XSchemas.
And, of course, I would appreciate any comment on the project, EXCEPT that
you use template engines and that you do not generate HTML directly. I've
heard that and it is completely missing the point so, please, spare me that
one. At one point or another plain HTML has to be generated.
Satyam
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Kelly" <php@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 4:13 AM
Subject: Re: Tidy HTML source?
On Monday 27 November 2006 17:10, Mark Kelly wrote:
Am I crazy to make an extra effort in my code to make the generated HTML
pretty?
Thanks everyone for your thoughts on this - I'm quite relieved that I'm
not
the only one who sits and tweaks so that the HTML is nice and readable.
It just struck me that trying to make my PHP spit out page source that
looks like it was made lovingly by hand was perhaps the work of an
obsessive.
Now I know that even if it is, I'm not alone :)
Cheers!
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