Re: lynx-dev lynx2.8.1dev.6

[T.E.Dickey]

> 
> > From: "T.E.Dickey" <address@hidden> 
> > Date: Sat, 18 Apr 1998 18:38:25 -0400 (EDT) 
> >... 
> > * Modify HTML.c, ifdef'ing some of the logic involved in unstacking tags.  
> > It 
> >   appears to be not completely necessary:  makes Lynx a little faster, at 
> > the 
> >   cost of making the tagsoup parser do the wrong thing.  Some entries in 
> > the 
> >   tagsoup DTD table versus the sortasgml table have SGML_EMPTY versus 
> >   SGML_MIXED.  This information is used to control unstacking (in the 
> >   color-style configuration as well).  There is still a problem evidenced 
> >   when toggling between the two parsers in the Lynx main help page, but 
> > that 
> >   appears to be missing logic in 2.8's version of the tagsoup parser.  - TD 
>  
> Do u have an example of html fragment that doesn't work right with the 
> updated tagsoup parser? 
I've only ifdef'd it so far - but haven't cut-over, since the places I've
ifdef'd fix some problems while creating new ones.

> Will this affect lynx's handling of legal html? 
Not if I do it right.  (I'm not done - I'm probably less than a quarter thru
this process, but stopped so I could source in the easier patches on my list).

> --le 


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