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jfeust
jfeust

Reputation: 845

Tidy causing bad spacing issues (JTidy)

We are using JTidy to clean up some html for sax processing. We've had a lot of trouble around spacing issues as shown in this example:

Html

<i>stack<span
class="bold">overflow</span></i>

which outputs "stackoverflow"

But...

Post JTidy

<i>stack
<span
class="bold">overflow</span></i>

which outputs "stack overflow" (note the new space)

Anyone have any advice to fix/handle this better. I've been through all the Tidy/JTidy settings and don't see anything to account for this issue.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1186

Answers (2)

jfeust
jfeust

Reputation: 845

Turns out this simple example doesn't really show the issue. The actual issue was that Tidy/JTidy was using a default wrapping setting which was causing the above issue (and other various spacing issues) when there were very long attribute values.

Everything was fixed with:

 jtidy.setWraplen(0);
 jtidy.setWrapAttVals(false);

Upvotes: 2

laz
laz

Reputation: 28638

What settings are you using? Executing JTidy from the command line using its default settings on the snippet you posted prints this:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta name="generator" content="HTML Tidy, see www.w3.org">
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
<i>stack<span class="bold">overflow</span></i>
</body>
</html>

Upvotes: 0

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