If Texinfo does generate HTML in the "<br />" style of XHTML, then it no longer validates as HTML. Because the output isn't completely XHTML, then Texinfo output cannot be validated as any flavor of HTML.
I can see that it would be useful for some people if Texinfo HTML output were more XML-like. But please make this optional so that we don't lose what I see as the equally important feature of generating a consistently-correct document. It seems to me that makeinfo should always output a DOCTYPE declaration at the top of a HTML document so we know what we are trying to conform to. An option to output XHTML would change this declaration, and everybody would know what they were getting. I am happy to see that makeinfo already does this with the --xml or --docbook options. I know that a few years ago getting the HTML output to display correctly on all browsers was a major challenge, and standards conformance only a minor consideration. I think things have changed now, and most popular browsers do very well with HTML 4.01 Transitional. Some can even handle more recent or stricter flavors of HTML. Thus I think it is now appropriate to generate standard HTML and to use a DOCTYPE to state your conformance. See http://validator.w3.org/ for the W3C's validation service. _______________________________________________ Bug-texinfo mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-texinfo
