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> > Okay, maybe I'm a little brighter than the HTML coders you're thinking of, but I > > spawned an XHTML version of my site with fairly little trouble. > > [multi-step saga deleted] Wow...my process qualifies as a saga. Cool. Not bad for about a week-long "when I have time" project. > For those who are going to do this, I recommend the use of HTML Tidy, an > open-source program that cleans up junk HTML (as produced by the products of a > certain corporation, or by "HTML coders") and has a switch to generate XML. I considered that option, but it had one problem I just couldn't overcome. See, my pages are assembled on the fly. The core part is one document, but common fragments are stored in a database and in various include files. Add in the pre-server and server-side scripting languages, and I really don't think HTML Tidy could handle it. But, there again, perhaps this is a more advanced (or maybe just more complex) system than the aforementioned "HTML coders" are supposedly using. Yes, if someone's idea of web design is firing up FrontPage or PageMill, HTML Tidy will do them a world of good...but once you get into database connectivity and server-side scripting languages like iHTML, that utility will not help you. Incidentally, on something completely unrelated - as I read the HTML4 spec, the Q element is supposed to insert quote marks. Has anyone out there actually encountered a browser that handles that correctly? (Part of my site's content is fiction, and I was thinking about using Q with the TITLE attribute to identify the speakers in a few chunks of dialogue. Yet, when I tested it on IE5, no quotes. Am I misreading the spec, or is IE5 noncompliant on this element?) Rev. Robert L. Hood | http://rev-bob.gotc.com/ Get Off The Cross! | http://www.gotc.com/ Download NeoPlanet at http://www.neoplanet.com *---------------------------------------------------------* E-Mail Delivery By VEI Internet Mail Services http://www.veiinternet.com - $14.95 Unlimited Internet Visit The New VEI Stores Open For Christmas: VEI DVD Store - http://vei.vstoredvds.com/ VEI Book Store - http://veibooks.vstorebooks.com/ *---------------------------------------------------------* xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; unsubscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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