Parse full HTML

[mgree]

PHPEnkoder presently works by running regular expressions over the entirety of the_content. Apparently doing so can lead to wrong encodings.

It should be possible to work in a more principled way:

• [ ] Capture all of the output from Wordpress. (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/772510/wordpress-filter-to-modify-final-html-output)
• [ ] Properly parse it as HTML.
• [ ] Traverse the parsed AST and find/replace in the body only and exactly a nodes with mailtos in the href attribute and CDATA and PCDATA with plaintext emails in them.
• [ ] Serialize and output the HTML.

Huge pro: PHPEnkoder works cleaner and is almost surely more correct. Significant con: PHPEnkoder will interact even less well with other plugins. Significant con: PHPEnkoder will be much slower.

Current count of bug reports around this issue: 4.

[mgree]

Relatedly, a user has requested that PHPEnkoder be able to run in rich text. Would supporting HTML solve this problem?