Re: [Bodington-developers] Templates

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Sean Mehan wrote:
>>A related issue is how committed we feel to the XML templates as they are?
>>We all seem to find them too verbose -- maybe we could simplify them
>>slightly. Matthew suggested adding support for the <building> tags in the
>>new templates, which could save a lot of work.
>
> ++2!

I've got a basic patch for building tags in new style templates in 
WebLearn HEAD but I'm not sure about the impact of this as its all a bit 
scary.

To convert an only style template to a new style you have to:

Change the DOCTYPE and add an xml header:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<!DOCTYPE template PUBLIC "xhtmltemplate1-strict.dtd" 
"http://bodington.org/dtd/xhtmltemplate1-strict.dtd">

Add <template> tags around the <html> tags.

Quote all attributes.

Balance all tags (eg <input> to <input/>).

While working on this I discovered that at the moment it is impossible 
to put an empty <textarea> in a new style template as it gets collapsed 
to an single textarea which is not rendered correctly by the browser. I 
also have a fix for this (which is ugly).

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