[Python-markdown-discuss] XHTML or HTML?

[Waylan L. <wa...@gm...>]

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From: Waylan Limberg <wa...@gm...>
Date: Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 2:36 PM
Subject: Re: [Python-markdown-discuss] XHTML or HTML?
To: Marco Pantaleoni <mar...@gm...>


On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 2:02 PM, Marco Pantaleoni
<mar...@gm...> wrote:
>>
>> Any thoughts on this approach?
>
> what about using a python property
> (http://docs.python.org/library/functions.html#property)?
> This would allow to use a method (which can be overridden in derived
> classes), keeping the
> simpler assignment syntax.
>
Well, we could, except that property requires new-style classes -
which python-markdown does not use. To be honest, I don't know why.
Perhaps for historical reasons. Although, I'm not aware of any reason
holding us back from changing that.

Yuri, do you have any input here?

Btw, I just committed and pushed the changes (less the property). So
we now support HTML4 output. :-)

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Waylan Limberg