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March 15 2008

xhtml_hyphenate: An hyphenation program for XHTML documents

Filed under: libhyphenate — Thiton at 16:24

As an example for real-world usage of libhyphenate, I proudly present you the XHTML hyphenator. By scrutinizing the xml:lang tag present in XML documents, it hyphenates all non-header text nodes of an XHTML document with standard UTF-8 soft hyphens, which are used by all standard browsers except Mozilla Firefox as hyphenation hints. Firefox ignores them completely, so no harm is done.

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Three comments 

  1. As an ex­am­ple for re­al-world us­age of
lib­hy­phen­ate, I proud­ly present you the
XHTML hy­phen­ator. By scru­ti­niz­ing
the xml:lang tag present in XML doc­u­ments, it
hy­phen­ates all non-head­er text nodes of an XHTML
doc­u­ment with stan­dard UTF-8 soft hy­phens,
which are used by all stan­dard browsers ex­cept
Mozil­la Fire­fox as hy­phen­ation hints.
Fire­fox ig­nores them com­plete­ly, so no harm
is done.

    comment by wer — Mar 17 at 13:58

  2. Hi, I noticed a couple bugs in this program... how do I send you
a patch? I didn't find your e-mail here :P

    comment by Adiel Mittmann — Mar 17 at 22:48

  3. Hi Adiel,

oh, sorry, totally forgot about that after implementing my anti-spam
measures :-(.

I've published contact information under
http://swolter.sdf1.org/software/aboutme.html

Thanks for the feedback and thanks in advance for the patch, Thiton

    comment by Thiton — Mar 18 at 14:35

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