Re: XHTML/XML slash for ending empty tags

On Sat, 4 Aug 2001, Tom Alsberg wrote:

>   Hi there.
>
>   I lately started using XHTML as a markup language, and HTML tidy
> doesn't seem to tidy accordingly. XHTML (or XML, for that matter),
> requires empty tags to end with a slash, like this:
>
> <emptytag />
>
>   But when I use tidy -m on an XHTML document, it seems to remove all
> the slashes from the empty tags, causing the document not to be valid
> XHTML afterwards.
>
>   Is there somewhere tidy can be configured to conform to XHTML when
> given a XHTML DTD?
>   The version of tidy I'm using is:
> HTML Tidy release date: 4th August 2000
>
>   Would a newer version conform to XHTML better?
>
>   Thanks in advance, any help appreciated,
>   -- Tom Alsberg

Try putting 'output-xhtml: yes' in your configuration file.

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Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams  <ignacio@openservices.net>

Received on Sunday, 5 August 2001 20:23:57 UTC