[l2h] obsolete files in versions/html*.pl ?

Ross Moore ross at ics.mq.edu.au
Mon Mar 10 19:42:54 CET 2003


> i've been hacking latex2html's source code (version 2002-2-1) about a
> bit (just to make it do what i want), and am going to try turning some
> what i've done into useful patches.  it looks to me as if some of the
> files in versions/html*.pl are obsolete: if i could have that
> confirmed/denied, then i could be sure i'm preparing patches for just
> the relevant files.
> 
> specifically ...
> 
> -rw-r--r--    1 phil     phil        20274 Jul 11  1999 versions/html2_1.pl
> -rw-r--r--    1 phil     phil         7704 Sep 27 06:15 versions/html2_2.pl
> -rw-r--r--    1 phil     phil         2666 Jun  6  1997 versions/html3_0.pl
> -rw-r--r--    1 phil     phil        87056 Sep 17  1999 versions/html3_1.pl
> -rw-r--r--    1 phil     phil        47036 Apr 13  2002 versions/html3_2.pl
> -rw-r--r--    1 phil     phil        60307 Apr 13  2002 versions/html4_0.pl
> -rw-r--r--    1 phil     phil        60964 Apr 13  2002 versions/html4_01.pl
> -rw-r--r--    1 phil     phil        60964 Aug 21  2002 versions/html4_1.pl
> 
> 
> a) it appears that these are never used:
>    
>    html2_1.pl html2_2.pl html3_1.pl

Correct, insofar as HTML versions 1, 2.1, and 2.2 are never
used anymore, having been superseded long ago by HTML 3.2 and 4.x .

Similarly 3.1 is out-dated, implementing <MATH> tags that
never got universal acceptance.


 
> 
> b) html4_01.pl and html4_1.pl are identical to one another.
> 
>    html4_01.pl is never used, because if you say `-html_version 4.01',
>    the code rounds 4.01 to 4.0 so you get the same result as if you'd
>    said `-html_version 4.0'.  i'd guess that the idea behind html4_1.pl
>    is to let the user say `-html_version 4.1' when they want HTML 4.01
>    (this doesn't quite work, because the DOCTYPE mentions 4.1).

Yeah, that was the idea.
OK, so there needs to be a small patch to get the DOCTYPE correct.


>    _if_ i have all that right, then the best course of action would be
>    to stop the code rounding 4.01 to 4.0, and delete html4_1.pl.

The same trick was used with  3_1  really being  3.01 (I think).
For compatibility with any existing documents or scripts calling
LaTeX2HTML, it would be best to catch  4_1 and make it  4.01
where needed, as well as stopping the rounding.

There is no future compatibility problem, as the W3C have effectively
frozen HTML at 4.01  --- as far as I can recall.
Future development is in  XHTML  and  XML.


> 
> thanks in advance for any guidance.


Hope this helps,

	Ross Moore

 
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