Re: Convert HTML to XML

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Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.spamfilter@virtualinfinity.net>

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Date:

Tue, 23 Oct 2007 21:08:01 -0700

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Sherman Pendley wrote:

Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.spamfilter@virtualinfinity.net> writes:

Look into Tidy, it is a program (there is a Java interface to it too
if you don't want to use the command line). It will reformat HTML
into well-formed HTML. Modern HTML (aka XHTML) *is* XML. So you don't
need to convert it to XML and then back to XHTML.

Agreed about Tidy.

The final output format should be HTML though, not XHTML. XHTML will not
render at all in IE6/7 when served correctly as application/xhtml+xml. IE
will render it when served as text/html, but uses its HTML engine to do
so. That being the case, it's better to give it valid HTML to work with,
then to give it XHTML that relies on the HTML engine's error handling to
parse correctly.

sherm--

Um, what are you talking about? XHTML *is* valid HTML. If you have to
lie about the content type, thats one thing, but XHTML should be used
going forward. non-XML HTML has been deprecated, and the sooner browser
writers and content providers realize this, the better the world will be.

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