Posted by Toby A Inkster on 03/24/07 00:21

Ciaran wrote:

> The problem is, as Toby mentioned, the compression function messes up
> some things.

I can share a little code with you I suppose... I happen to do exactly the
opposite of what you're describing -- add *more* whitespace to some HTML,
in order to pretty-print it. Obviously, this screws up when you get inside
a PRE or TEXTAREA element, so I made my function smart enough to know when
it's inside one of those.

http://svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/demiblog/trunk/blog/includes/misc.php?revision=215&view=markup

It's the indent_html() function you're looking for. Obviously, you'll need
to work at it a bit to get it to do what you want, but you should see that
it fairly reliably knows at each point whether or not it's within a "safe
tag" or not.

That said, I'd still advise against your plan. Gzipping your files will be
far more effective, more reliable and easier.

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