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Posted by Benjamin Niemann on 09/01/06 22:18
Mantic wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I am having some problems with something that seems quite trivial. On
> my web page, I am dynamically pulling content from a database via PHP
> and mySQL, generating html code from the php script. So far every
> 'news' item that I pull displays just fine, except for one entry. That
> entry doesn't wrap its text to its parent's width as every other entry
> does. It just goes off into nothingland (overriding its parents
> boundries). There are no strange HTML tags that would be causing this
> that I know of.
>
> We've narrowed the problem down to a specific sentance that breaks how
> the text wraps. The strange thing is that this sentance doesn't contain
> ANY punctuation or html tags. By simply removing the sentance,
> everything works as expected.
>
> My first thoughts was that our code wasn't valid, but it checks out to
> be valid with XHTML 1.0 Strict. Our css code is valid too. Next I
> thought it was a bug with Firefox, but then it behaves the same way
> with Opera 9.0. IE doesn't really display the page properly at all, but
> it shows signs of behaving similar.
>
> Here is the url:
> http://cymantix.org
>
> The news item labeled "What? Two meals in one week?" is the one at
> fault.
> If we remove the sentance: "Ed Take a look at the annual Obfuscated
> Perl Contest especially the code of David Powell" everything works fine
> (even if we replace it with text equal in length, but just of different
> content).
The spaces in this sentence are 'non-breakable spaces' (codepoint 160,
a.k.a. ), not ordinary spaces (codepoint 32) - and these are not just
in this sentence. Some editors fail to give some visual clue about their
presence. Simply removing and reinserting these spaces will probably help.
Here is what 'less' prints, which incorrectly (but enlightening in this
case) parses the file as iso-8859-1:
<p>
I'm thinking about a way to turn namespace and class definitions in C++
code, pulled from .h files, into a
n <strong>XML code graph</strong> that can be used for <strong>automatic
documentation</strong> and <stron
g>interactive online code-browsing with integrated live
documentation</strong>.
</p>
<p>
<a href="http://news.cymantix.org/mantic">Mantic</a> should be able to write
the C++ to XML converter in abo
ut half a line of Perl code.
</p>
<p>
Ed
Take a look at the annual Obfuscated Perl Contest especially the code of David
Powell
</p>
<p>
Has anyone made a <strong>Flash-based code browser</strong> before?  Especially one targeted
towa
rd open-api or open-source projects?
</p>
Look for the 'Â ' sequences.
--
Benjamin Niemann
Email: pink at odahoda dot de
WWW: http://pink.odahoda.de/
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