Re: [Docutils-develop] The HTML writer

[David G. <go...@us...>]

Adam Chodorowski wrote:
> Shouldn't the "html4css1" writer be renamed to "xhtml"?  That's
> namely the output it generates, and there is a *lot* of difference
> (when it comes to browser support) between HTML 4 and XHTML.

It's XHTML-compatible HTML 4 output (or is intended to be).  It
doesn't use any non-HTML tags.  I don't see a need to change the
module name, but it'd be easy to add an alias 'xhtml'->'html4css1' (in
docutils/writers/__init__.py, ``_writer_aliases``).

AFAICT the output is legal HTML 4.  Do you know of a browser that
doesn't support Docutils' (X)HTML output but *does* support HTML 4?

From the XHTML spec (http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-xhtml1-20011004):

    [XHTML] is intended to be used as a language for content that is
    both XML-conforming and, if some simple guidelines are followed,
    operates in HTML 4 conforming user agents.

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