[wp-hackers] XHTML Strict Mode

[Brian Meidell]

The spec actually doesn't seem to mention single quotes, but they pass 
the w3 validator though.

Brian Meidell wrote:

> 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.
>>
>> -- 
>> http://www.jamietalbot.com/
>>
>>
>> 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
>>>   
>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>
>>> -- 
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