#4851 (Bleach is no longer being maintained)

by Luc Saffre · in Developers

Sad news: Will Kahn-Greene steps back and has no successor. [url bluesock.org/~willkg/blog/dev/bleach_6_0_0_deprecation.html]. What does this mean for Lino?

1 aasta, 11 kuud ago by Luc Saffre about #4851 (Bleach is no longer being maintained) : The solution is actually quite easy. Today I stumbled into it: I wrote a little function sanitize(), which uses BeautifulSoup. TODO: write documentation and an extensible set of test cases.
3 aastat, 7 kuud ago by Luc Saffre about #4851 (Bleach is no longer being maintained) : I asked chatgpt: What alternative to the bleach python package should we use?
There are several alternatives to the bleach Python package for sanitizing and cleaning HTML and XML data. Some popular options include:
html5lib: This is a Python library that provides a way to parse and serialize HTML a...
3 aastat, 8 kuud ago by Luc Saffre about #4851 (Bleach is no longer being maintained) : Seems that we can use Beautifulsoup instead of bleach for this [url stackoverflow.com/questions/48180690/how-to-clean-tags-from-html-using-beautifulsoup#48180885].
3 aastat, 8 kuud ago by Luc Saffre about #4851 (Bleach is no longer being maintained) : In Lino we use bleach because end users reported problems after copying text from MS-Word into the ExtJS text editor. Bleach does a good job to clean rich text from "useless" things. Note that we even remove tables.
3 aastat, 8 kuud ago by Luc Saffre about #4851 (Bleach is no longer being maintained) : Created new Ticket #4851 (Bleach is no longer being maintained).