[Bug] Extraneous spaces in HTML

[TimidRobot]

Description

Due to a combination of string separation to aid translation and HTML formatting via BeautifulSoup4, the published HTML output includes extraneous spaces.

Example:

docs/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode.en.html lines 559-562:

       <strong>
        License grant
       </strong>
       .

Results in:

Expectation

Extraneous whitespace should not be included in rendered / user-facing text.

Additional context

Requirements

• The CC Legal Tools must support translations
• The CC Legal Tools must have normalized/tidy output (the HTML input is inconsistent)
• The CC Legal Tools must have deterministic output (the published HTML must be machine formatted)

Documentation

• class bs4.HTMLFormatter - Beautiful Soup Documentation

Resolution

• I would be interested in resolving this bug.

[TimidRobot]

HTML formatting tools are surprisingly evasive. The best one I've encountered so far is Prettier · Opinionated Code Formatter, but I haven't found or developed a good way to integrate it into a Python project.

[LMDcoded]

Hi @TimidRobot! I’d be interested in working on this issue. I’ll start by exploring options to clean up the extra spaces without disrupting the translation structure. Will keep you posted on progress and any solutions I find. Thanks for outlining the context so clearly!

[eskayML]

Hello, @maintainers

please can i raise a PR for this

[sumaya-786]

hello,can i am interested in solving it

[TimidRobot]

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[Likhil022]

This PR addresses the issue of extraneous spaces in the HTML templates. It can be viewed here: #229