[Refdb-users] getref -t xhtml produces invalid xhtml (and no css effects)

[Markus H. <mar...@mh...>]

Hi David,

David Nebauer writes:
 > The following command:
 >     refdbc -C getref -o refs.xhtml -t xhtml ":ID:>0"
 > produced an invalid xhtml file.  (I'm using a recent CVS snapshot - how 
 > can you tell the refdb version in use, anyway?.)

1) All RefDB binaries support the -v command line option to display
   the version

2) To find out the version of a running refdbd server, use the
   refdba:viewstat command

Both options will return the version string set at configure
time. This will be bumped up in CVS for each release and
pre-release. There is currently no provision to distinguish unreleased
CVS versions - you'd have to keep track of the binaries you build and
install.


 > 
 > The problem is simple: the trailing slash is missing in the first 'meta' 
 > tag (meta http-equiv ...).
 > 

I see, SGML vs. XML problems are at work here. That ought to be
fixable in just about no time ... done. Update backend.c and
backend-html.c please.

 > Of course, there may be another explanation.
 > 

Indeed there is. Actually a real simple one: The example css file
(which you most likely adapted to your needs) was written before XHTML
support was added. HTML is case-insensitive, whereas XHTML is
case-sensitive. The paragraph selectors in the css file are uppercase
which works ok with HTML but not with XHTML. I've lowercased them and
checked in the updated version. It works ok with Firebird 0.7.

regards,
Markus

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