Re: [Edbrowse-dev] tidy5

[Chris Brannon <chris@the-brannons.com>]

Karl Dahlke <eklhad@comcast.net> writes:

> Forgive me I haven't looked at the code at all,
> but I would guess there's a tidy5 encodeTags() that takes the
> html text and makes the tree.

Essentially true.  The details are a bit more complicated, but this is
the idea.  We call tidy to parse the html, and we get back a structure
from tidy called a document.  It contains our tree of nodes, and we
can iterate over it.  The problem is, this is a usable parse tree for
the html, but it isn't a true DOM.  We can remove nodes and attributes
from the tree, but we can't add them.  That causes problems for JS that
needs to add new nodes.  So we're going to have to take that parse tree
we get back from Tidy5, build our own DOM out of it, and eventually
render it.

-- Chris