[wp-hackers] XHTML Strict Mode

[Jamie Talbot]

Hi,

Currently working on a version that will handle poor attributes as well.  Am
outputting double quotes in the parsed version, no real reason, just prefer
them myself, especially for Javascript problems that require single quotes.

In the meantime, I packaged up the validifying functions in a class so there
shouldn't me any more conflicts.  Version 0.7 also includes a knocked up output
page which will open on request or if an unfixable error comes up.  It needs a
little work to pretty print the input and output if there is too long, and uses
'xmp' tags which are deprecated (ironic, huh?), but it's a start.

Take a look, test it to destruction!  (Remember it doesn't do attributes yet -
am concentrating on whole tags first....)  Would especially appreciate testing
against latest or recent CVS builds.

http://www.jamietalbot.com/wp-hacks/xvalid.zip

Source at:

http://www.jamietalbot.com/wp-hacks/xvalid.phps

Cheers,

Jamie.

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http://www.jamietalbot.com/


Quoting "Eric A. Meyer" <eric at meyerweb.com>:

> At 10:33 +0200 8/17/04, Brian Meidell wrote:
>
> >Since inconsistent use of double and single quotes in a XHTML
> >document seems to pass right through the w3 validator, I figured the
> >XML and XHTML spec might differ in other points as well.
>
>     Whatever XML defines is true for XHTML[1], because XHTML is XML.
> You can use either single quote or double quotes, but you can't leave
> quotes off of attribute values.  You also have to balance quotes;
> that is, if you open an attribute value with a double quote, it has
> to end with a double quote.  Similarly for single quotes.  I think
> those are the only rules regarding quotes on attribute values;
> they're the only ones I can remember offhand, anyway.
>
>
> [1] Although not necessarily for browser implementations of XHTML support.
>
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