Following on from bug MDL-7861 "Strict XHTML 1.0", I am building up a patch to fix stray ampersands, poor semantics, etc. in help HTML files (lang/en_utf8/help/*). This is what I'm tackling:

1 Well-formed XML

• Stray ampersands, regular expression /&[^a^l^g^q^n^#]/ (Not perfect, but a start). Specific searches &file, &bug, &mod.

2 Semantics

• Each */index.html should start with a <h2> </h2>, except help/index.html which should start <h1> </h1>
• Other headings, regular expression /<p><b>(.*?)</b></p>/, should be replaced variously with <h2>$1</h2>, <h3>$1</h3> as appropriate - a headache!

NOTES,

• I want to be pragmatic. - should we aim for Strict DTD for help? Would Transitional be sufficient?
• I'm ONLY fixing English language, en_utf8 - how can we systematically fix other languages.