Something is wrong with the tidy settings of the CMS

Squiz Matrix Support
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Hi all


Got another teething issue after the upgrade from 3.12 to 3.20.6.



Something is wrong with the tidy settings of the current version or could this be a bug in the curent verison of 3.20.6

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For XHTML, image tags should be written with a slash before the closing tag eg <img src="…" />, but when these slashes are entered and saved in a document (using the wysiwyg) the CMS is removing the slash. This is HTML4 encoding and causes validation errors in our templates.



The same is occurring with breaks which should be <br />, but the CMS is changing to <br>. There would be other less common tags that are similarly affected, but these are just more symptoms of the same problem.



Futhermore, when using a wysiwyg area in the admin interface, the html tidy icon displays a tooltip message that 'HTML Tidy failed to clean this content', but offers no explanation as to why it failed.

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Can someone out there give me instruction to fix this issue if there is a fix within the 3.20.6



Cheers :rolleyes:

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For XHTML, image tags should be written with a slash before the closing tag eg <img src="…" />, but when these slashes are entered and saved in a document (using the wysiwyg) the CMS is removing the slash. This is HTML4 encoding and causes validation errors in our templates.



The same is occurring with breaks which should be <br />, but the CMS is changing to <br>. There would be other less common tags that are similarly affected, but these are just more symptoms of the same problem.

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Did you make sure to check the code on the front end after submitting it, rather than in the WYSIWYG editor? The editor will always show non-xhtml code. It will run through tidy and be saved in the DB as cleaned. xhtml.

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Did you make sure to check the code on the front end after submitting it, rather than in the WYSIWYG editor? The editor will always show non-xhtml code. It will run through tidy and be saved in the DB as cleaned. xhtml.

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Yes, sadly, the problem is displaying on the saved page - front end.



(I'm from the same place as ^Yogi^)

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what version of tidy are you running?


tidy -v

HTML Tidy for Linux released on 25 March 2009

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what version of tidy are you running?



tidy -v

HTML Tidy for Linux released on 25 March 2009

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HTML Tidy for Solaris released on 1 Septemember 2005

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For 3.20.x and later, you need a newer HTMLTidy: release date 6 Nov 2007


Might want to check on the requirements here as you have upgraded many major versions and moved from PHP4 to PHP5: http://matrix.squiz.net/resources/requirements

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For 3.20.x and later, you need a newer HTMLTidy: release date 6 Nov 2007



Might want to check on the requirements here as you have upgraded many major versions and moved from PHP4 to PHP5: http://matrix.squiz.net/resources/requirements

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Hi greg



But we run Solaris platform not Linux, based on the link you gave us it say HTML Tidy for Linux… :unsure:

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Hi greg



But we run Solaris platform not Linux, based on the link you gave us it say HTML Tidy for Linux… :unsure:

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If you run Solaris, use a version compiled for Solaris. The date (what HTMLTidy uses for its version number) is the important bit. New versions contain new features that we need for Matrix now.

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If you run Solaris, use a version compiled for Solaris. The date (what HTMLTidy uses for its version number) is the important bit. New versions contain new features that we need for Matrix now.

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As far I know I haven't come across any new version complied for solaris in regards to HTML Tidy based on this website I am viewing currently http://tidy.sourceforge.net/



Unless I am looking at the wrong spot. B)

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As far I know I haven't come across any new version complied for solaris in regards to HTML Tidy based on this website I am viewing currently http://tidy.sourceforge.net/



Unless I am looking at the wrong spot. B)

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Just check the latest source out from the CVS and compile it. Its probably one of the easiest projects to compile.