• From: Andrew Welch <andrew.j.welch@g...>
• To: "David A. Lee" <dlee@c...>
• Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:09:47 +0000

Just run it through an XSLT transform with the output method set to html.

cheers
andrew

2009/11/23 David A. Lee <dlee@c...>:
> I'm faced with the 'interesting' request of the web team to produce HTML not
> XHTML.
>
> The request came to encode empty elements like  <BR/> as <BR>  (and <HR/> as
> <HR>)
> The rationale is that they are trying for maximum browser compatibility and
> CSS style capabilities.
>
> Although they could not actually point to an actual current case where using
> XTHML syntax breaks things, nonetheless they are insisting on not using it,
> "just in case" , "for maximimal conformity".
>
> They also requested that if I use a tag that takes bodies but the body is
> empty to not write it as <tag/>
> Example
>   <P/>  should be written as <P></P>  ....  although I think I can waffle on
> this one.
>
> So I'm tasked now with having to convert reasonably good HTML into 'perfect'
> HTML mainly fixing up these empty tags.
>
> Any suggestions ? The proposal from the web team was "Just use perl to do
> regex replacements" ... Ug.
> I'm not going to use perl.   But I might resort to the equivlent of using
> Java regex replacements on the final output phase.
> But maybe there is a 'better' way to do this ?   I'm not enough familiar
> with XSLT to know but it does have an "html" mode ... will it do this kind
> of thing ?
> I'm hoping I don't need to write my own serializer and have to actcually
> *parse* the 'HTML' to generate these reqirements ... so maybe a regex is the
> best fit ?
> I'd love to run it through a trivial xquery or xslt filter in "make the web
> team happy" mode ...
>
> Other suggestions welcome.
>
> --
> David A. Lee
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>
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