On Mon, May 03, 2021 at 11:54:58PM +0200, deloptes wrote: > to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > xmllint has an --html option for that. That said... > > you sure that it will give a warning if tag is not closed? Cause I do not > think so. In fact the --html option seems to correct those missing tags. > All together it's a good tool, but I do not know how it applies to html5
AFAIK it does HTML4. HTML5 is a "living standard" [1], [2] which is an euphemism for "Apple, Google, Microsoft and, to a slowly dwindling extent Mozilla, will tell you what is supposed to work today". The W3C consortium fought tooth and nail to fix a standard and lost. Whatwg (the above mentioned Big Guys) imposed Raph Levien called that, back then in 1998, "The decommoditization of protocols" [1]. A visionary. Remember this old joke (around 1990) Q: How many Microsoft engineers does it take to screw in a light bulb? A: None, they just define darkness as an industry standard. Well, we arrived there. In a nutshell, no, I don't think libxml (which xmllint is part of) has the resources to track this madness. Cheers [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML5 [2] https://html.spec.whatwg.org/ [3] https://www.levien.com/free/decommoditizing.html -- t
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