[geeklog-devel] New GL default theme

Oliver Spiesshofer oliver at spiesshofer.com
Mon Oct 22 19:20:01 EDT 2007


Of course you are right. Thats why I wrote "careful replace" :-)

but most of the things you wrote below are already done AFAIK.
Its much more work to find out where the / is needed and where not.

Oliver

Ramnath R Iyer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am not so certain that replacing ">" with " />" is all there is to 
> converting from HTML to XHTML. It depends to a large extent on the original 
> code, and would involve at the very least:
>
> * Changing the DOCTYPE
> * Ensuring that all the elements are nested properly (<b><i>....</b></i> is 
> wrong)
> * Ensuring that all the tags are closed (<li> must be followed by a </li>)
> * All tags must be in lower-case
> * Attributes cannot be shortened (checked="checked" instead of simply checked)
>
> See: http://www.w3schools.com/xhtml/xhtml_html.asp
>
> I'm not saying it is necessarily complicated, but it certainly is more than 
> just a find/replace.
>
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