Hi All, I personally believe that it should be based on the DTD being used for the HTML.
I use XHTML Strict (-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN) and I would expect any conversion from XML to XHTML to make an XML document that is valid against the DTD. If libxml2 does what you want then this will *not* be the case and hence all my XHTML would be invalid. In the future people will have problems with their XHTML if they do not consider using the strict version. The semantic web and machine to machine communications will need to depend on the documents being as compliant as possible to the standard. "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" is supposed to be for "transitional" use while one is going from HTML 4.0 to XHTML. I believe that XHTML1.0-Strict is the expected standard until it is replaced by the W3C XML Schema version. For this reason I believe Libxml2 should automatically provide XHTML1.0-Strict. If not then should libxml2 be creating HTML 1.0? ;--) If people want to have a less strict XHTML output then there should be an option of generating XHTML-Transitional or another HTML standard. No matter what the output, the XHTML should have a prolog that includes an XML declaration (if it is XHTML) and a valid DOCTYPE declaration. The rest of the XML document should be valid according to the DTD of the stated DOCTYPE. E.G. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd";> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; lang="en" xml:lang="en"> <head> <title>Some content</title> <body> Some more content. </body> </html> This will ensure that people can validate the XHTML according to the intentions of the author. It will also ensure that the output will be exactly as intended by the standard and not depend on the interpretation of the browser being used. Thanks. John > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of iSteve > Sent: Thursday, 12 January 2006 4:59 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [xml] Apparently incorrect paragraph wrapping in > HTML parser > > > Daniel Veillard said (on IRC, though not on this mailing > list) that he's > waiting for feedback about how to fix this issue. > > I for myself have to say I'd remove it completely; I do not > think it is > reasonable to have the document altered by the parser in first place; > I've found some more issues with it in the mailing list, too. > (http://mail.gnome.org/archives/xml/2002-October/msg00047.html) > > Since DV didn't ask himself -- it is after all me who wants this bug > fixed -- I have to ask: what do all of you think about it? Any > suggestions how it should be resolved? > > -- iSteve > _______________________________________________ > xml mailing list, project page http://xmlsoft.org/ > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/xml > _______________________________________________ xml mailing list, project page http://xmlsoft.org/ [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/xml
