From: Florian Gilcher <flo@...>
Date: 2008-03-28T17:03:30+09:00
Subject: Re: [PATCH] New ERb mode

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On Mar 26, 2008, at 2:45 PM, Marc Haisenko wrote:
> On Wednesday 26 March 2008, Phlip wrote:
>> Marc Haisenko wrote:
>>
>>>> Could a more aggressive patch read the <!DOCTYPE..>, then apply  
>>>> its XML
>>>> DTD to remove all non-significant blanks? I suspect that would  
>>>> save wear
>>>> and tear on servers. If the HTML DTDs actually specify which  
>>>> blanks are
>>>> significant!
>>>
>>> Sorry, but ERb doesn't do any XML processing, it's a simple  
>>> templating
>>> system.	
>>
>> That's why I said "patch".
>

I have the impression that this goes beyond the scope of a templating  
system. It
also could get messy if you your template has no doctype (Partials,  
for example).

Why not use tidy for such a task?

Greetings
Florian Gilcher
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