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Re: XML to "HTML"

• From: Andrew Welch <andrew.j.welch@gmail.com>
• To: David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk>
• Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:59:59 +0000

>>They also requested that if I use a tag that takes bodies but the body
>>is empty to not write it as <tag/>
>>Example
>>    <P/>  should be written as <P></P>  ....  although I think I can
>>waffle on this one.
>
> That's the one that is perhaps most important to fix, if you use
> /> syntax with things served as text/html then things will go wrong.

Just to add to that  - if you use the html or xhtml output method then
you'll get <p></p> and not <p/> (which is what you'd get with the xml
output method), so there's nothing to fix as such, the serialiser will
do the right thing for you.





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Andrew Welch
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• References:
  • XML to "HTML"
    • From: "David A. Lee" <dlee@calldei.com>
  • Re: XML to "HTML"
    • From: David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk>