Compatibility with comments in cells and with indented commands

[peter-lyons-kehl]

Hi Paul,

Thank you for your Selenese project.

I've created SeLite (http://selite.github.io). It extends Selenium IDE to make it more productive. One recent feature of SeLite is that it makes Selenium IDE save Selenese comments not as HTML comments anymore. Rather, it saves them as <td colspan="3" class="comment">...</td>. That enables

• users to see the comments in a browser, and
• HTML diff tools (https://github.com/DaisyDiff/DaisyDiff) to show changes in Selenese comments (which most tools ignore if the changes are in HTML comments).

That migration from HTML comments to special table cells would break your parsing: https://github.com/pjcj/Selenese/blob/master/bin/selenese#L138. However, I'm not sure of what https://github.com/pjcj/Selenese/blob/master/bin/selenese#L178 does.

May I ask that you make Selenese module ignore that have class="comment", please.

Also, SeLite allows indentation of the commands. It adds XML non-breakable space(s)   in front of indented commands. May I ask you to skip those non-breakable spaces, please.

(For details of my code see https://github.com/SeLite/SeLite/blob/master/clipboard-and-indent/src/chrome/content/extensions/html.js#L459 and https://github.com/SeLite/SeLite/blob/62d34cf395f89afc4420e5726ebe65dd6cc4f0aa/clipboard-and-indent/src/chrome/content/extensions/html.js#L88.)