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Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2003 14:38:56 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Tidy & PHP5
From: edink@emini.dk (Edin Kadribasic)
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On Monday, Dec 1, 2003, at 14:45 Europe/Copenhagen, Ilia Alshanetsky 
wrote:

> I would like to propose that tidy extension be bundled with PHP 5.
>
> First of all it'll provide an easy means to validate and/or fix HTML 
> input for
> webforms, which can also help existing functions such as strip_tags(). 
> The
> extension can also be used to reduce HTML output by removing 
> formatting,
> which can be quite significant for large pages (even if compression is 
> used).
> Tidy can also be used to provide a rapid means for conversion between 
> HTML
> and XHTML and if needed can even handle XML. To those who need to 
> parse HTML
> it also provides a fairly handy OO API (similar to that of simplexml), 
> which
> would enable people to write fast HTML parsers in PHP.

Sounds like a useful thing for many typical PHP applications, so +1 
from here.

Edin