Formatting HTML Source using Ruby

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Is there any Ruby library available to format the HTML source. By formatting I mean removing the extra spacing, apply proper indentation etc.

I am already using Hpricot for parsing HTML. It would be nice if Hpricot could do this job. But I am not stick with Hpricot for the formatting stuff.

Thanks, Imran

michaelmichael · Accepted Answer · 2010-08-16 16:29:35Z

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Check out this Ruby interface to the HTML Tidy library.

answered Aug 16, 2010 at 16:29

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Saim Over a year ago

Thanks Michael, I'll have a look at it. Thanks again.

Parker · Accepted Answer · 2010-08-16 15:43:44Z

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Extra spacing and formatting don't really matter in HTML, so regardless of the formatting and white space, the browser should display the code as the same.

answered Aug 16, 2010 at 15:43

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Saim Over a year ago

I agree. But consider this as a unique requirement. We need to achieve this somehow. Thanks for your comments.

KargWare Over a year ago

I also like clean, and predictive html because of unit testing. Whitespaces and newlines always hard to take care in string equals operations

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