Re: [Docutils-develop] The HTML writer

[Dethe E. <de...@ma...>]

On Thu, 2002-08-01 at 03:06, Adam Chodorowski wrote:
> No, the output is *not* legal HTML 4 since it is in a XML syntax, not SGML
> one. There are some differences between XML and SGML in what is allowed. For
> example empty tags like <this/> do not exist in SGML, and therefore browsers
> that don't support XHTML (and hence XML) might get confused.    

While this is true, browsers specifically ignore attributes they don't
recognize.  By putting a space between the final attribute or tagname
and the trailing slash (like <this /> or <this example="true" /> instead
of <this/> older browsers will treat it as an unknown attribute and
ignore it.

The only browser I'm aware of which still had trouble with XHTML 1.0
after the application of this convention was an old version of the AOL
browser.  This is based on following the discussion on the XHTML mailing
list for some time.

> > Do you know of a browser that doesn't support Docutils' (X)HTML output but >
> > *does* support HTML 4?

See above.

-- Dethe

Dethe Elza (Dad...@li...)
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