Re: Deescaping Atom brain damage

On Monday 23 October 2006 18:45, David Carlisle wrote:
> > However, that's an approach that can leave you with non well-formed XML,
> > assuming the "input"(whatever that is defined to be) is invalid. Right?
>
> yes but it depends what you are doing. If the stylesheet is using the
> html output method the result isn't well formed xml anyway so adding
> some more html which is not xml to it is not in itself bad.

Yeah, but it could turn into not even valid HTML(that is, tag soup). Browsers 
eat tag soup for breakfest(that sounds wrong, and so it is), so probably it 
will come out in some acceptable way at the user's end. But of course, the 
programmer lost his respect by cooking it.

Nope, not that I have a clean solution for all this(beyond hitting the 
original content producer with a stick).


Cheers,

		Frans