                          mod_tidy - a TidyLib based DSO module for the Apache HTTP Server Version 2


What is it?
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mod_tidy is a TidyLib based DSO module for the Apache HTTP Server Version 2
to parse, clean-up and pretty-print the webservers' (X)HTML output.

How does it work?
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mod_tidy works as a filter that hooks up to the (X)HTML output of an Apache 2 webserver.
It passes the webservers' (X)HTML output to TidyLib (http://tidy.sourceforge.net/)
which parses and optional cleans-up and pretty-prints that output. If TidyLib detects an error,
the client receives a HTML page with a list of all found errors and warnings
that prevent the input of being a valid (X)HTML document. If TidyLib doesn't complain,
the client will get and display the (X)HTML data as without mod_tidy.

Due to the fact that mod_tidy may affect little response delays of the webserver,
its use should be reduced to a developer framework only. mod_tidy is not recommended
to be used in a production environment, where response delays of the webserver are undesirable.

Who makes it?
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mod_tidy is initially written by Sebastian Tusk, who has retired from that project.
The previous official project page has been accessible through the web for years,
until it has been silently closed in April 2005. With kindly permission of the initial project owner,
Sierk Bornemann has created a new home on Sourceforge.net to give mod_tidy a new chance.

Regarding the core of mod_tidy, the TidyLib (http://tidy.sourceforge.net/), on which mod_tidy heavily relies,
most work is done by the Tidy library team. 

The Latest Version
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The latest version of mod_tidy can be found on the
project page under http://mod-tidy.sourceforge.net/.

Documentation
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No further documentation is available as of the date of this release.

Installation and Configuration
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Please see the file called INSTALL.

Licensing
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mod_tidy is licensed under an Apache Licence, Version 2.
For details, please see the file called LICENSE.

Contacts
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  o If you want to be informed about new code releases, bug fixes,
    security fixes, general news and information about the mod_tidy module
    visit the mod_tidy project page on http://mod-tidy.sourceforge.net/.

Acknowledgments
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  I wish to acknowledge the following copyrighted works that
  make up portions of the mod_tidy module:
  
  Portions of this software were developed at the World Wide Web Consortium (http://w3.org/)
  (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, European Research 
  Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics, Keio University).
  The original software is available from http://tidy.sourceforge.net/.
