From: Dmitri Borodaenko <angdraug@...>
Date: 2004-11-11T19:31:06+09:00
Subject: Re: REXML error reporting (XHTML validation)

On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 06:22:42 +0900, James Britt
<jamesunderbarb@neurogami.com> wrote:
> >>I see that 'script' elements are deleted, as the yaml file makes no
> >>mention of that element.
> > Right, that was on purpose.
> Ah, I see. I thought of this as the start of a general-purpose lib that
> might then be used by some more specific application.

Well, it is going to be general-purpose -- if someone is going to use
it. As with Samizdat's RDF layer, I don't want to implement features
that no-one needs, and since I'm the only one currently using it, I do
only the stuff I need.

> A suggestion (motivated by self-interest): arrange for the code to allow
> all proper XHTML by default, with the option of passing in a set of
> elements and/or attributes that are disallowed at validation time.
(...)
> This way, you need not keep editing the base yaml file when adjusting
> what to sanitize.

I don't see the point: the reason I've put it all into a YAML file is
that it's easier to edit it there, rather than in your source code.
Or, if you want to do it programmatically, all you have to do is:

class Sanitize
    attr_reader :xhtml
end
...
Sanitize.instance.xhtml['_common'].delete('style')

-- 
Dmitry Borodaenko