[wp-hackers] XHTML Strict Mode

Brian Meidell brian at mindflow.dk
Mon Aug 16 21:02:13 UTC 2004


The XHTML spec says that quotes must be either " or '. No quotes is not 
an option.
The browsers will still render the content, but the validation will fail.

http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#h-4.4

/Brian

Jamie Talbot wrote:

>Thanks ;D
>
>Attributes are a nightmare cos browsers will parse
>
><a href = "lala.com">
><a href = 'lala.com'>
><a href ="lala.com">
><a href=lala.com>
>
>and other combinations all ok, so people could theoretically use all of these. 
>Attributes are for another day when I've had time to sit down and think about
>it!
>
>BIG EMERGENCY WARNING!
>
>DO NOT USE THIS AS A PLUGIN!  It will make it look like all your posts have
>disappeared.  They haven't, but the Edit Page will say No Posts Found.  That
>scared the sh*t out of me a minute ago - thought I'd lost everything!
>
>It must be a clash due to so many globals.  I'll definitely be changing that for
>the next version.
>
>Just view the demo instead - I've removed the zipfile for the time being.
>
></panic>
>
>Cheers for the feedback!
>
>Jamie.
>
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>Quoting Dougal Campbell <dougal at gunters.org>:
>
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>>Jamie Talbot wrote:
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>>>I've cleaned stuff up a bit and packaged it as a plugin.  It now handles a
>>>      
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>>wide
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>>>variety of poor syntax, transforming it to valid XHTML.  All the debug code
>>>still remains, as it's an evolving package, but it's now stable as far as I
>>>      
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>>can
>>    
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>>>tell.
>>>      
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>>Cool stuff. I was able to find a case that isn't covered, though:
>>
>>   <a href="foo title="bar">blah </a>
>>
>>Unbalanced quotes aren't noticed.
>>
>>--
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