& XSLT Hi all,

  I've been using HTML Tidy extensively in a custom content management 
system for about three and a half years, with an IPC::Open3 wrapper to 
the tidy binary - a pre-libtidy solution that has served me quite well 
until recently, when I concluded I needed some more speed, and slightly 
more informative output.

  I decided to switch to the HTML::Tidy CPAN module, but didn't find an 
easy way to pass in configuration directives etc.

  Having noted that the XS in HTML::Tidy is somewhat monolithic, I've 
spent a little time writing a slightly more modular XS wrapper from 
scratch. It seems to have been a useful way to learn XS if nothing 
else, but it should be useful as the basis of more work.

  The broad brush of the new API is as follows:

	use HTML::Tidy::Simple;

	$tidy = new HTML::Tidy::Simple(
      input_file =>  $html_file,             # or from string: input => 
$html
      config_file =>  $cfg_file,             # optionally specify a tidy 
config file
      config =>  { 'output-xhtml' => 'yes' } # optionally specify config 
directives
     );

     my $status = $tidy-> status;            # tidy processor status

     my $result = $tidy-> result;            # tidied result

     my $errs = $tidy-> errors;              # produces a hash of error 
counts
                                            # (AccessWarning, Warning, 
Error, ConfigError)

     my $errlog = $tidy-> error_log;         # the HTML Tidy error log


  It's my feeling that the API here is different enough to break 
compatibility with HTML::Tidy - hence the name - but I felt I'd get 
this out there anyway, and perhaps merge back into HTML::Tidy (if Mr 
Lester is in agreement) at some point in the future.

  I'm planning on submitting this new module to CPAN, but before I do 
so, I'd like to ask if anyone could help me test it out. If you'd like 
to, let me know by email.

I should have a version that is ready to be sent to people for testing 
within the next day or so.

  Thanks in advance

	Mike Houghton

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