From: Phillip Gawlowski <cmdjackryan@...>
Date: 2007-04-14T01:24:02+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] ClothRed 0.3.0 released

Adriano Ferreira wrote:

> but that's pretty easy to work around with the simple patch attached.
> I just replaced "" as a substitution to HTML </h1>, </h2>, ... by
> "\n\n" producing the necessary paragraph breaks for Textile.
> "test/test_headings.rb" had to be fixed and I also wrote
> "test/test_misc.rb" as a test script for HTML with more than one tag
> in it.

Thanks. I'll add your patch ASAP, and make a new release.

> The substitution approach will not work quite right for HTML where
> closing tags are missing. The algorithm will never understand when the
> tags were closed. So this is somewhat limited currently to XHTML which
> demands closing tags.

And it's buggy, I've noticed, as it ignores self-closing tags like <br 
/>. I'll fix that together with your patch.

> I think the suggestion of using a HTML parser (like Hpricot) to do
> this conversion will impose itself pretty soon.

Probably, but I'll have to play with Hpricot first, to see if it can do 
what is needed (after a short skim, it allows to convert HTML4 into 
XHTML1.0, which will make it easier). Trouble is, I want ClothRed as 
dependency free as I can. So maybe I'll redistribute Hpricot in non-gem 
distributions (if that's possible, haven't checked Hpricot's license yet).

> Thanks for the inspiring work.

No problem. I'll need that library for my own ideas. ;)

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