[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>:
>
>
>
>>Jamie Talbot wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I've cleaned stuff up a bit and packaged it as a plugin. It now handles a
>>>
>>>
>>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
>>>
>>>
>>can
>>
>>
>>>tell.
>>>
>>>
>>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.
>>
>>--
>>Ernest MacDougal Campbell III, MCP+I, MCSE <dougal at gunters.org>
>>http://dougal.gunters.org/ http://spam.gunters.org/
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