[wp-hackers] XHTML Strict Mode

[David Schlosnagle]

You may want to check out this post about handling invalid XML in PHP
5.1 and libxml2. <http://blog.bitflux.ch/p1757.html>


- David Schlosnagle
<schlosna at gmail.com>
<http://www.david-s.net/>



On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 17:18:34 +0900, Jamie Talbot
<wphackers at jamietalbot.com> wrote:
> 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.
> 
> --
> 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.
> >
> > --
> > Eric A. Meyer  (eric at meyerweb.com)    http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/
> > Principal, Complex Spiral Consulting  http://www.complexspiral.com/
> > "CSS: The Definitive Guide," "CSS2.0 Programmer's Reference,"
> > "Eric Meyer on CSS," and more   http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/books/
> >
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