[PHP-DOC] Errata cleanup: From: Ron Chmara (ron <email protected>)
Date: 07/31/00

Going through the current website errata, there's quite a bit of code wrapped
in the HTML tags that _used_ to be allowed....
Listing below, (don't read it with a parsing browser email client...)
<PRE>code </PRE>
<B>BOLD</B>
<I>Italic</I>

I've been manually cleaning these out, but if anybody already _has_
a decent script to batch through all of the posts, and replace the
tagging (say, replace <B>and</B> with *'s, so <b>BOLD</b> becomes
*BOLD*, and convert <PRE>code</PRE> to a <p>code<p>),that would
go a long ways towards errata/notes legibility.... Some of the
<pre> tags seem to be ignored entirely , but some are not (huh?),
depending on how you're looking at it (in manual, in edit mode,
in errata listing mode)

http://www.php.net/manual/function.addslashes.php has an errata
from bruce cadiz that looks like a mess on screen on in edit
mode, for this reason (not to mention the A tags)... this is just
one of _many_.

Hence, a suggestion for removing them entirely from the db, rather
than trying to re-parse on the fly, or spend lots of human time on
the edits.

-Bop 

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