Re: not valid {x}html (was Re: [gentoo-dev] www.gentoo.org and konqueror)

[Daniel Mettler]

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re colin,

On Monday 12 August 2002 18:56, Colin Morey wrote:
> (ie every <start> has a
> corresponding </start>)

actually this would be well-formed xml. valid xml has to be
well-formed and must include a dtd in addition. however, for
many purposes, well-formed xml is sufficient.

> However I'm not sure what you mean by it being astonishing
> that it's not valid html.. if you mean that the html generated
> by the xsl/xml interaction is not valid, then that's a fair
> point,

yep. that's what i meant.

> (and incidently I believe it is a fault of the xsl not
> the xml.

that's what i meant again :) just check the xsl stylesheet you
use. for example, a valid html page has to declare which dtd it
uses at the beginning of each page (see
http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/sgml/dtd.html).
this has usually to be done in the xsl stylesheet.

> > yep. nevertheless it's wise to choose a powerful, rather
> > generic language such as xml/xsl as base language (to easily
> > batch-transform content into other formats).
>
> hmm, that is exactly what we've done.. all of the docuements
> are in xml and then get "translated" into html when the site
> is built.

fine. yep, it's the usual thing to do the transformations on the
server-side.

regards

dan

ps. i think i have said what had to be said ;)

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