Re: [HT2HTML-devel] CVS: ht2html Banner.py,2.2,2.3 PDOGenerator.py,2.3,2.4 SelfGenerator.py,2.2,2.3 Sidebar.py,2.3,2.4 Skeleton.py,2.5,2.6

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>>>>> "Fred" == Fred L Drake, Jr <fd...@ac...> writes:

    Fred> Barry A. Warsaw writes:
    >> +1 on this change, but out of curiosity, does XHTML really care
    >> about tag case?

    Fred> Yes.  XHTML is specifically defined to be legal XML, and is
    Fred> case sensitive.  The chosen direction was to use lower case
    Fred> rather than upper.

    Fred> There are two ways to provide XHTML: as text/xml, at which
    Fred> point it can be validated as XML, or as text/html, as which
    Fred> it cannot be valid HTML, but more browsers will be able to
    Fred> deal with it in practice.  It cannot be valid HTML because
    Fred> it uses the XML-style empty tags (with a required space
    Fred> between the tag name or attributes and the "/>", as a
    Fred> browser compatibility hack).  "<hr />" is perfectly legal
    Fred> XML, but will never be valid HTML since the '/' character is
    Fred> illegal at that position.

it-ain't-your-older-twin-brother's-web-anymore-ly y'rs,
-Barry