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tidy package

tidy removes important whitespace

Bug #23304 reported by David Mandelberg
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
HTML Tidy
Unknown
Unknown
tidy (Debian)
Unknown
Unknown
tidy (Ubuntu)
Incomplete
Medium
Unassigned

Bug Description

When I run tidy (full command: "tidy -xml -access 3 --indent auto
--input-encoding utf8 --output-encoding ascii --quote-marks yes") on an xhtml
file, it removes whitespace between words when the first word is a link.

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David Mandelberg (dseomn) wrote :

Created an attachment (id=4373)
xhtml file before running tidy

line 54: notice the space in 'bash</a> script'

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David Mandelberg (dseomn) wrote :

Created an attachment (id=4374)
xhtml file after running tidy

line 57: notice the lack of a space in 'bash</a>script'

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David Mandelberg (dseomn) wrote :

Note: if you're up for a ~15MB download from my ADSL connection and need more
info about how I'm calling tidy or something simillar, you can download one of
the source tarballs from http://eth0.is-a-geek.org/

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David Mandelberg (dseomn) wrote :

It's not just links, but other tag(s) too.

On http://eth0.is-a-geek.org/about-me/ 'Mandelberg</em>and' should be
'Mandelberg</em> and'.

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Ben (bugzilla-ubuntu-com-inelegant) wrote :

I can reproduce this with the latest binary from http://tidy.sourceforge.net/ as
well.

A simple test case seems to be:

echo "<p><a href='/'>foo</a> bar</p>" | tidy --quiet yes --show-warnings no
--input-xml yes

This produces:

"<p>
<a href='/'>foo</a>bar</p>"

There are multiple bug reports about whitespace removal/addition in "-xml" mode
on http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=27659 . For instance:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=27659&atid=390963&func=detail&aid=449348
and
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=27659&atid=390963&func=detail&aid=1104229
. I _think_ creating a minimal testcase and reporting it upstream may be a good
next step...

Matt Zimmerman (mdz)
Changed in tidy:
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
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rusivi2 (rusivi2-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Thank you for posting this bug.

Edgy is in End of Life status. Please update and repost detailed error report.

Changed in tidy (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
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