Package: libtidy-dev (20081224cvs-1)

HTML syntax checker and reformatter - development

Corrects markup in a way compliant with the latest standards, and optimal for the popular browsers. It has a comprehensive knowledge of the attributes defined in the HTML 4.0 recommendation from W3C, and understands the US ASCII, ISO Latin-1, UTF-8 and the ISO 2022 family of 7-bit encodings. In the output:

 * HTML entity names for characters are used when appropriate.
 * Missing attribute quotes are added, and mismatched quotes found.
 * Tags lacking a terminating '>' are spotted.
 * Proprietary elements are recognized and reported as such.
 * The page is reformatted, from a choice of indentation styles.

Tidy is a product of the World Wide Web Consortium.

Tags: Software Development: Libraries, Role: Development Library, Documentation