On 5 January 2013 21:45, kpb <[email protected]> wrote:

> Which brings me, in a rather roundabout way, to the point I made in my
> reply to Alan Lord. Hand coded (x)html, viewed in a browser, and checked
> with a validator, is great but takes ages. I find that banging my text into
> an editor then using the markdown script to convert it to (x)html is much
> quicker, and results in less mistakes. That is probably just me being a bit
> of an end user.
>

No, that's not true.

I could write an entire page of XHTML in about 2 minutes.

It only "takes ages" if you don't understand - would you advocate using an
application to solve quadratic equations etc., because "they're too hard"?

They are hundreds and hundreds of times harder than writing markup, which
is a piece of cake.

This person wants to write websites, not purist XHTML... they want
templates, they want it (presumably) to work in different browsers across
different platforms.

I do NOT see how using your shell script solution, or some WYSIWYG which
generates code which only works in some browsers, would help him in any way
at all.

Sean
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