| | 22 | === Why not use JTidy? === |
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| | 24 | The initial version of Jabhts used [http://jtidy.sourceforge.net/ JTidy], but |
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| | 26 | 1) JTidy is buggy, e.g. removes empty <div> elements even when told to keep empty paragraphs. |
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| | 28 | 2) JTidy is not maintained. The last release was made in August 2000. |
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| | 30 | As JTidy doesn't use the [http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#parsing contemporary rules] for parsing html, and hasn't been updated for 7 years, it was dropped even though installing the python version of the html5lib takes much more work. |
