[Bodington-developers] messin' wi' Templates

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You can use HTMLParser (http://htmlparser.sourceforge.net/) to go from badly
formed HTML to well formed xHTML, ie, add closing tags, quoted attributes
and the like automatically.

You could almost certainly do other stuff whilst you're at it like 

	<html> -> <template><html>
 	</html> -> </html></template>

Would it be an idea to look into this as a time saving exercise?

You would also be able to make sure that <textarea/> appears as
<textarea></textarea> as well.

Adam

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| -----Original Message-----
| From: bod...@li... [mailto:bodington-
| dev...@li...] On Behalf Of Matthew Buckett
| Sent: 15 June 2005 15:51
| To: bod...@li...
| Subject: Re: [Bodington-developers] Templates
| 
| 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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