Re: Any word ...

On Mon, 10 May 1999, Jelks Cabaniss wrote:

> Any word on the next release of Tidy supporting the latest xhtml
> WD's namespace and DOCTYPE's system identifiers?

Yes, the next release will support the single namespace now agreed
for XHTML 1.0 and the corresponding doctype identifiers.

> There is a minor bug wrt xhtml and the "clean" option.  It creates CSS like
> 
> 	DIV.c1 { ... }
> 	P.c2 { ... }   /* etc. */
> 
> where xml docs (including xhtml) with
> 
> 	<div class="c1"> ... </div>
> 	<p class="c2"> ... </p>
> 
> wouldn't match up to the above styles, though it "works" in
> current HTML+CSS browsers displaying xhtml.  Then again,
> "div.c1", "p.c2", etc. would work in the current crop *and*
> future XML-aware browsers.

Thanks for spotting this case discrepancy.

> A suggestion for the configuration file ... an option to force
> the desired output DOCTYPE declaration. Something like
> 
> 	doctype: 	omit | guess | strict | loose | <!DOCTYPE ...
> 
> where the default behavior is "guess" (current behavior).  The
> output format (HTML or XHTML -- implied or specified elsewhere)
> determines whether the "strict" or "loose" applied to HTML 4.0
> or XHTML 1.0.  The final choice above would be for a custom
> DOCTYPE not covered by the other ones (such as HTML 2.0 and
> 3.2).

I assume you want this to control stripping out of presentational
features, no? Let me know what your goals are here.

> There might be better ways to do this, but I think the ability
> to specify the DOCTYPE would prove handy.
> 
> $0.25 ...

But costing rather more than that to deal with, I think :-)

Best wishes,

-- Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org> http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett
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Received on Monday, 17 May 1999 14:06:00 UTC