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<h1>Advanced API</h1>
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<div id="home"><a href="http://hp.jpsband.org/">HTML Purifier</a> End-User Documentation</div>
<p>It makes no sense to adopt a <q>one-size-fits-all</q> approach to
filtersets: therefore, users must be able to define their own sets of
<q>allowed</q> elements, as well as switch in-between doctypes of HTML.</p>
<p>Our goals are to let the user:</p>
<dl>
<dt>Select</dt>
<dd><ul>
<li>Doctype</li>
<li>Filtersets: Rich / Plain / Full ...</li>
<li>Collections: Safe / Unsafe / Leniency(?) / Corrections(?) [advanced]</li>
<li>Modules / Tags / Attributes</li>
</ul></dd>
<dt>Customize</dt>
<dd><ul>
<li>Tags / Attributes / Attribute Types</li>
<li>Filtersets</li>
<li>Root Node</li>
</ul></dd>
<dt>Create</dt>
<dd><ul>
<li>Modules / Tags / Attributes / Attribute Types</li>
<li>Filtersets</li>
<li>Doctype</li>
</ul></dd>
</dl>
<h2>Select</h2>
<h3>Selecting a Doctype</h3>
<p>By default, users will use a doctype-based, permissive but secure
whitelist. They must define a <strong>doctype</strong>, and this serves
as the first method of determining a filterset.</p>
<p class="technical">This identifier is based
on the name the W3C has given to the document type and <em>not</em>
the DTD identifier.</p>
<p>This parameter is set via the configuration object:</p>
<pre>$config->set('HTML', 'Doctype', 'XHTML 1.0 Transitional');</pre>
<h3>Selecting a Filterset</h3>
<p>However, selecting this doctype doesn't mean much, because if we
adhered exactly to the definition we would be letting XSS and other
nasties through. HTML Purifier must, in its filterset, allow a subset
of the doctype, which we shall call a <strong>filterset</strong>.</p>
<p>By default, HTML Purifier will use the <strong>Rich</strong>
filterset, which allows as many elements as possible with untrusted
sources. Other possible filtersets could be:</p>
<dl>
<dt>Full</dt>
<dd>Allows the full span of elements in the doctype, good if you want
HTML Purifier to work as a Tidy substitute but not to strip
anything out.</dd>
<dt>Plain</dt>
<dd>Provides a minimum set of tags for semantic markup of things
like blog comments.</dd>
</dl>
<p>Extension-authors would be able to define custom filtersets for
other users to use.</p>
<p>A possible call to select a filterset would be:</p>
<pre>$config->set('HTML', 'Filterset', 'Rich');</pre>
<h3>Selecting Modules / Tags / Attributes</h3>
<p>If this cookie cutter approach doesn't appeal to a user, they may
decide to roll their own filterset by selecting modules, tags and
attributes to allow.</p>
<p class="technical">This would make use of the same facilities
as a filterset author would use, except that it would go under an
<q>anonymous</q> filterset that would be auto-selected if any of the
relevant module/tag/attribute selection configuration directives were
non-null.</p>
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