Posted by Jean Pion on 10/11/06 11:36

"Iv�n S�nchez Ortega" <i.punto.sanchez--@rroba--mirame.punto.net> schreef in
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> tomb wrote:
>
>> But the only reason to generate neat html
>> is so the users can look at the page source and make sense of it more.
>
> Besides, a developer should not read raw HTML, but should have a look at
> the
> DOM tree - there are wonderful DOM tree inspectors for Konqueror and
> Firefox (built-in) and for IE (via third-party toolbars).
>
> Analyzing the DOM tree generated by the PHP scripts, and validating the
> generated HTML against W3C's validators would prove more useful than
> writing scripts that generate indented HTML.
>

I'm just working on some inherited code, and I don't want to rewrite it
completely.
What I do now is load source of the resulting page into CSE Html Validator.
If would help me a bit to make it more readable;
but you are right: a comment blocks will do fine.

Thanks for your input,
Jean.

>
> (In fact, my programs generate a gibberish of (X)HTML that validates quite
> nicely, but is a mess to read).
>
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