[closure-devel] How to disable <span class="illegalstyle"> from being generated?

[Andrei Stebakov]

On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 4:11 PM, David Lichteblau <david at lichteblau.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Quoting Andrei Stebakov (lispercat at gmail.com):
>> I agree that style of the html code I sometimes get leaves much to be desired.
>> In this case there is a <style> tag located inside <td> element. So
>> chtml:parse injects the illegalstyle span in the code.
> [...]
>> How do I disable this from being generated?
>
> I'm afraid the answer is "change chtml".
>
> The Closure HTML project is, at the moment, mainly a reusable form of
> Closure (the web browser)'s parser.
>
> "Reusable" because it's a self-contained library, but indeed sometimes a
> little limited in its reusability because there are assumptions about
> how to repair non-DTD-conforming markup -- assumptions that either go
> too far or do the wrong thing entirely.
>
> Personally I'd like to see two different modes:
>
>  1. repair HTML exactly like mainstream browsers do
>
>     (I think this is equivalent to implementing "HTML5" instead of
>     trying to follow the HTML4 transitional DTD.)
>
>  2. ignore schema compliance issues entirely
>
>     (plain tag soup parsing)
    Is it easy to turn off the schema compliance? I am not quite
familiar with the code so I wonder if it requires rewriting a lot of
code?
>
> In that respect I'd "take patches", but I'm currently not working on
> those patches myself.
>
> d.
>