Subject : Java Glossary

Installation

Download the binary containing tidy.exe in the zip file. Unpack it, and put tidy.exe in a directory on the path.

Create a tidy.config file that looks something like this:

You

rem run tidy on some.html replacing the contents with the tidied contents.
tidy.exe -config E:\env\tidy.config -m some.html

Advantages

• Free and open source.
• Quick.
• Corrects many small errors as well as beautifying.
• Highly configurable.

Disadvantages

• It moves comments whether you want it to or not.
• It adds multiple blank lines. One is sufficient.
• It needlessly puts </dt> </td> etc. on a new line.
• It inserts </p> tags whether you want them or not.
• It inserts id parameters in <a name= tags whether you want them or not.

Bugs

• It has a serious bug. It converts your<colgroup <col attributes to classes. Unfortunately, only Internet Explorer then pays any attention to them. It effectively deletes all your <colgroup <cols.
• It splits after = even when you tell it not to.
• It scrambles <pre sections.