On 12/5/06, Ivan Sagalaev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In the near future I think The Right Thing would be to use a real HTML
> parser for such things. There were many messages on WHATWG list from
> people writing such tools in many languages including Python:
> http://code.google.com/p/html5lib/
On 12/5/06, James Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On IRC a moment ago, Jacob suggested an 'html4' template filter which
> would just strip trailing slashes from empty tags; I'd be happy with
> that (and willing to put in some time to implement it), provided we
> advertise clearly that the Dja
On 12/5/06, Ivan Sagalaev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The question is where to stop. Pickiness may lead further to having an
> option to omit quotes around attribute values, have uppercase tag names,
> omit end tags of etc... This is all working HTML (even valid by DTD).
Yup. And in fact, I do
On 12/5/06, Fredrik Lundh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> full details:
>
> http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/html/empty.html
Also, there is a valid problem here; if I produce HTML4, and just say
"it validates, I don't care if it's correct", then my HTML will work
in browsers, but actual SGML parsers (
On 12/5/06, Adrian Holovaty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If XHTML-style tags are valid in HTML 4 strict, then I don't see a
> point in creating a separate output format for each widget.
They are valid but have a completely different meaning which browsers
don't interpret correctly; in HTML4, the
