Paula Mondoux wrote: > Hello. I've just downloaded XXE. I'm wondering about > the XHTML doctype. From what I can tell strict XHTML is not > that useful, at least to edit web pages that might want > to be displayed by MSIE. > > Can XXE be used to edit web pages? (I'm sure it's > a dumb question, but please give me a clue!)
No, this is not a dumb question. * XXE is clearly not an HTML (application of SGML) editor. You can use it for any XML application, including XHTML strict or transitional. * XXE is bundled with a comprehensive configuration for XHTML strict. * We, XMLmind, use XXE to author the web pages for our own web site. Having found XHTML strict limited for a few pages, we have added a *limited* support for XHTML transitional. For example: use File|New... and select XHTML | Page (DTD XHTML 1 Transitional) to create a new XHTML Transitional page. Why did I say *limited*? Because, unlike what we have done for XHTML strict, the CSS style sheet we have created supports very few Transitional presentation attributes (e.g. bgcolor). * MSIE -- yes, we know: the absolute standard in terms Web browsing -- neverthless sometimes behaves strangely. Suffice to remove : --- <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd";> --- (or even just <?xml...?>, I don't remember) found at the top of an XHTML file to make it properly display XHTML created using XXE. (Here at XMLmind, we use a XQuery script which automatically converts pure XHTML content authored using XXE to ``graphical'' web pages.)
