Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 11:35:39 +0000 From: Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net> To: "Devon H. O'Dell" <dodell@sitetronics.com> Cc: www@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Tags like <br/> and our current doctype Message-ID: <20050304113539.GN27332@submonkey.net> In-Reply-To: <1109934321.3926.52.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <1109934321.3926.52.camel@localhost.localdomain>
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--+QwZB9vYiNIzNXIj Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 12:05:21PM +0100, Devon H. O'Dell wrote: > >From what I recall, tags like <br> are self closing in the HTML 4.0 and > 4.01 doctypes, i.e. <br /> is redundant and confuses (or is supposed to > anyway) the parser into thinking the last tag was closed. >=20 > However, if I change this to <br>, even with our doctype, it freaks out. > I suppose that the parser doesn't really care what our doctype is, it > just wants the content to be XML-compliant. >=20 > <br> is XML compliant, if you have the right entity definition. >=20 > So I see two possible options for the future: >=20 > 1) Figure out how to make the parser like <br> and keep our current > doctype (or upgrade to HTML 4.01/Strict), or >=20 > 2) Hop over to XHTML 1.0/Transitional, which will allow us to utilize > features of XHTML (and let us keep <br />, which is valid in XHTML) > while still having our Content-type as text/html (this isn't allowed for > any other XHTML doctype) #2 is best. I made a patch ages and ages ago for this (not a full patchset, mind you) that might even vaguely apply still; search the archives for a post from me with a subject containing "XHTML" and you should find it. At the time the response was a mixture of mild resistance and apathy, however; it was felt that fixing this wasn't worth the CVS churn as I recall (yes, that surprised me too). Ceri --=20 Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. -- Einstein (attrib.) --+QwZB9vYiNIzNXIj Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCKEgLocfcwTS3JF8RAhcmAJwJPPChRnsrFLtlGsHjsGWNr8bH8QCeKJqk Db1FzoTEfY9h7gYuz0omIuY= =fvgQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --+QwZB9vYiNIzNXIj--
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