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Subject:    Re: [opencm-dev] XHTML
From:       Philipp =?iso-8859-1?q?G=FChring?= <p.guehring () futureware ! at>
Date:       2002-11-18 23:03:56
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Am Montag, 18. November 2002 23:00 schrieben Sie:
> Phil:
>
> I'm concerned about XHTML adoption, because many browsers still don't
> process it correctly. All of the XSLT processors can handle straight
> HTML input pretty easily, so I'm not clear why switching to XHTML is
> helpful. Can you expand?

Yes. On the one hand, it was only some minor changes, specifically closing 
the open tags.
As far as I know, there is a way to do it, so that even older browsers do not 
have a problem with it. (Adding a space before the /)
And I did that.
I am using Sablotron for everything, and I haven't heard about Sablotron 
being able to parse HTML.

> If we wanted to go to pure XML, the switch would be better motivated,
> but that would require people to build XSLT processors into their web
> servers -- clients like "links" don't handle XML at all!

Switching to pure XML would make a webservice out of it, which most people do 
not know what to do with it at the moment, but it might be an option on some 
years. (Or as a second interface, but I think XHTML compliant CGI interface 
is enough for the moment, since we want to keep complexity down)

But being XHTML compatible makes it nearly as easily useable as XML, and 
parseable with all XSLT parsers.

With XHTML it is rather easy to produce new templates for the layout with a 
wrapper around it.

Well, and the XML starts living ... ;-)

Many greetings,
- -- 
~ Philipp Gühring              p.guehring@futureware.at
~ http://www.livingxml.net/       ICQ UIN: 6588261
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