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Re: Minimal set of rules for making HTML well-formed?

• From: "Liam R. E. Quin" <liam@fromoldbooks.org>
• To: Andreas Mixich <mixich.andreas@gmail.com>, "xml-dev@l..." <xml-dev@l...>
• Date: Fri, 03 Apr 2020 17:58:01 -0400

On Fri, 2020-04-03 at 22:13 +0200, Andreas Mixich wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 7:33 PM Liam R. E. Quin <
> liam@fromoldbooks.org>
> wrote:
> 
> > You should probably investigate HTML Tidy first.
> > 
> 
> https://about.validator.nu/htmlparser/
> 
> would also be an option and could be used straight with BaseX and
> Saxon, if I am not being mistaken.

Actually XML Tidy can be used by Saxon but you have to be sneaky about
it :) But this was email from last October; since then XProc 3 has been
announced and may be a more appropriate framework to use to orchestrate
the conversion with XML Tidy (or whatever) and then into XSLT or BaseX.

Liam


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  • Re: Minimal set of rules for making HTML well-formed?
    • From: Andreas Mixich <mixich.andreas@gmail.com>