On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, you wrote: > > > Are you proposing that all the documentation be moved to XHTML, or just > > > these header files? The former is a sizeable undertaking from two > > > fronts. One, we're talking about a lot of docs to convert. Two, we're > > > talking about educating every contributer to submit stuff in XHTML, when > > > they are used to writing HTML. > > > > The changes required aren't huge; the only major thing is using lowercase > > for > > tags. You need to put a trailing slash on single tags, too; apart from that, > > it's no big deal. > > Yes, understood, I know what's involved in making a document XHTML > complient. What's big, however, is the scope of such a change. We're > talking about, at a rough count (ls -laR | grep -c html) 455 documents > that would need to be converted and validated. This is not a small > undertaking.
Yes - which is why I'm not suggesting a "big bang" switchover. Just create the new header, then convert the pages one at a time to validate properly. A fair bit of this can be automated, anyway... > > Basically, going for XHTML isn't a huge undertaking, and allows us to get > > much better automatic checking. It would also be nice to boast > > compliance with the latest and greatest standards :-) > > Ja. Agreed. Just want to make sure that we know what we're getting into, > and that there are people willing to put in the work. I tend to have > time in cycles lately. I've been in an "off" mode the last two weeks for > a variety of reasons. And although some folks like Joshua seem to have > unlimited time to produce quality work, most of us are mortal. I should have some time coming up, although how much of this will be PC-equipped, I don't know. (The laptop went off to have the screen repaired, and came back with three floppy drives and no battery. Duh. Then the company folded...) > And, thanks for your concern, but the little one is still very sick, and > I seem to be getting it too. Bah. Sorry to hear that - hope you're both better soon. You do know the best cure is lots of HTML editing, don't you? :-) James.
