report html generation question

[Arthur Ralfs]

Josh Sled wrote:
> Arthur Ralfs <arthur at mathbrane.ca> writes:
>   
>> Why is this?  I would much rather get the scheme generated html than this.
>>     
>
> I believe we ask gtkhtml to do the export, and it serializes its own
> representation of the document rather than emitting the generated html.
> I'd agree that it's less than ideal, but such is the reporting
> subsystem. :/
>
>   
Derek Atkins wrote:
>>
>> This html appears not to be the html I expected to get looking at the
>> scheme code.
>>
>> Why is this?  I would much rather get the scheme generated html than
>> this.
>
> Because GtkHTML sucks.
>
> What you're seeing is HTML fed to GtkHTML and then re-exported
> from GtkHTML (which does not give you the same input).
>
>

Since the opinion of GtkHTML does not appear to be high in this context
I presume
there must me some other reason for its use.

Does it seem to be very difficult to change its use in generating
reports?  Can anyone
point me to the code where it's invoked?

Arthur