SCITE includes TIDY for cleaning up HTML/XML documents (rewrapping lines, cleaning up spacing, etc). If you’ve never used Scintilla based products before (and you have if you’ve used SEPY, FlashDevelop, Scite|Flash) it’s a great text editing library that is wrapped in an application layer (Scite). Try out one of the installers they include — they’re ultra lightweight and really nice to have around.
Information on parameters used by TIDY are noted here. The default values of the cleanup never really worked with how I used the app so I’ve made modifications to the html.properties file in the Scintilla Text Editor folder.
command.name.1.$(file.patterns.xml)=Save and Indent XML
command.1.$(file.patterns.xml)=tidy -xml -indent -modify “$(FilePath)”
command.is.filter.1.$(file.patterns.xml)=1
command.save.before.1.$(file.patterns.xml)=1
TIDY Quick Reference
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-output <file>, -o <file> |
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write output to the specified <file> (output-file: <file>) |
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set configuration options from the specified <file> |
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write errors and warnings to the specified <file> (error-file: <file>) |
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modify the original input files (write-back: yes) |
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indent element content (indent: auto) |
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-wrap <column>, -w <column> |
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wrap text at the specified <column>. 0 is assumed if <column> is missing. When this option is omitted, the default of the configuration option “wrap” applies. (wrap: <column>) |
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force tags to upper case (uppercase-tags: yes) |
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replace FONT, NOBR and CENTER tags by CSS (clean: yes) |
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strip out smart quotes and em dashes, etc. (bare: yes) |
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output numeric rather than named entities (numeric-entities: yes) |
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show only errors and warnings (markup: no) |
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suppress nonessential output (quiet: yes) |
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-omit |
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omit optional end tags (hide-endtags: yes) |
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convert HTML to well formed XHTML (output-xhtml: yes) |
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force XHTML to well formed HTML (output-html: yes) |
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do additional accessibility checks (<level> = 0, 1, 2, 3). 0 is assumed if <level> is missing. (accessibility-check: <level>) |
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-raw |
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output values above 127 without conversion to entities |
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use ISO-8859-15 for input, US-ASCII for output |
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use ISO-8859-1 for both input and output |
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use ISO-2022 for both input and output |
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-utf8 |
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use UTF-8 for both input and output |
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use Windows-1252 for input, US-ASCII for output |
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use IBM-858 (CP850+Euro) for input, US-ASCII for output |
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use UTF-16LE for both input and output |
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use UTF-16BE for both input and output |
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-utf16 |
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use UTF-16 for both input and output |
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use Shift_JIS for both input and output |
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set the two-letter language code <lang> (for future use) (language: <lang>) |
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list the command line options |
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list the command line options in XML format |
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list all configuration options |
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list all configuration options in XML format |
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list the current configuration settings |
About Bela Korcsog
Proud father of two children, happy husband to one wife.
I've been programming various technologies and leading the development of huge projects for most of the last ten years. I've got some specific likes and dislikes through my experiences in the web site business but generally I'm pretty straightforward about it. Not a huge fan of the latest and greatest shiny toy (it took me four years to show an interest in Flash) I'm more than happy to code in any language that comes along (Actionscript is just so darn fun).
