On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 02:29:13PM +1100, James Gray wrote: > On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 12:37 pm, Gavin Carr wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 12:03:12PM +1100, Voytek wrote: > > > I need to place contents of word files on a web pages; > > > I've sorted catdoc/charset to output correct codepage text files, > > > > > > catdoc -scp1250 -d8859-2 381.rtf > 381.php > > > > > > but, then I need to insert '<br><br>' after every paragraph > > > > No, you need to wrap <p> </p> around every paragraph, and end up > > with nice compliant xhtml. This is the 21st century, after all. ;-) > > I thought the closing </p> was optional? I know syntactically, leaving the > closing paragraph tag will be interpretted correctly by any modern browser, > but is it explicity a requirement to be xhtml compliant??
Absolutely. XHTML is an XML-derived HTML-like markup language, and XML is an SGML subset with the requirement that all tags must be closed, or explicitly single (eg <br /> -- that slash at the end is the "don't look for a closing tag because it ain't there" marker). And shit does it make the parsing sooooo much easier to not have to know the closing tag status of everything you hit... - Matt
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