Closed
Bug 40945
Opened 22 years ago
Closed 18 years ago
Implement validating HTML parser using SP
Categories
(Core :: DOM: HTML Parser, enhancement, P3)
Core
DOM: HTML Parser
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RESOLVED
WONTFIX
Future
People
(Reporter: hjtoi-bugzilla, Unassigned)
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Details
Because it has been possible to integrate Expat into Mozilla, it shouldn't be impossible to integrate SP, the validating SGML parser from James Clark, either. SP is used in many HTML validators available on the web already. I do not know who would have the drive to implement this. Perhaps some HTML editor folks? Or it might interest the academic... A test project for advanced students learning programming with help of Mozilla, for example. I see this as no big requirement. It would just be nice to have an HTML validator right in your browser, occasionally. This could also be expanded to include support for any SGML documents (like what DocZilla does, although DocZilla has a closed-source parser). That would require quite a bit more work, however.
Comment 2•22 years ago
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reopening and marking Future...
Status: RESOLVED → REOPENED
Resolution: REMIND → ---
Target Milestone: --- → Future
Possible applications for this include an iCab-style validness indicator, or outright error indications for invalid content, perhaps as a user-selectable preference.
Comment 5•21 years ago
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For reference: http://www.jclark.com/sp/index.htm
Comment 7•20 years ago
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Should this bug be a dependency for some of the bugs relating to user feedback on invalid pages (bug 6211, for example)?
Comment 8•20 years ago
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how difficult would this be to do? i can't program myself, but if it wouldn't be that hard i'm sure someone would be able to. this is blocking some pretty IMO important bugs.
Comment 9•20 years ago
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We might be able to use some of the basic code of the W3C's validator and port it to C. It uses the SP parser.
Comment 10•18 years ago
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WONTFIX. This would be nice to have in an extension, but realistically, Mozilla builds will probably never ship with this feature, even if someone provided a patch to do it.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 22 years ago → 18 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
Comment 11•16 years ago
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I've been using HTML validator extension from M. Gueury at http://users.skynet.be/mgueury/mozilla/ The Windows users can download and install version 0.8.3 http://users.skynet.be/mgueury/mozilla/preview_080.html which is a true validator, a SGML validator (based on OpenSP). I've been using it for the last 3 days with Firefox 1.5.0.3 and it works basically - almost exactly - the same as the W3C validator but without having to submit the page to the W3C HTML valdiator. It's great and I've had no problem whatsoever with it and while using it. I did not notice any significant slowing down in the rendering of page and I'm using a Pentium 3, 667Mhz cpu, 384MB of RAM. The extension is 1,849 KB in size. M. Gueury's extension is more powerful, more reliable, more useful and more versatile than anything I've seen so far: it works off-line (and that is a big advantage), it can alternatively use HTML Tidy (same code as Tidy from W3C), it can report accessibility errors, warnings, accessibility issues to check manually.
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