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Re: makeinfo - plans to generate XHTML 1.0 Transitional?


From: Janis Johnson
Subject: Re: makeinfo - plans to generate XHTML 1.0 Transitional?
Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2002 10:21:29 -0800
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On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 12:44:26PM -0500, Karl Berry wrote:
>     If Texinfo does generate HTML in the "<br />" style of XHTML, then it no
>     longer validates as HTML.
> 
> Argh!!  I guess I misunderstood Janis and Gerald.  The browsers seem
> happy enough with <br />.  It's very sad that it doesn't validate.
> 
> Did the texinfo html output ever validate, even before the <br /> stuff?
> That was never a goal, so if it did, it was an accident :).

Probably not, due to other problems that I reported and that are fixed
in your 4.2c pretest.
 
> I don't know what to do.  For the next release, I'm not going to add
> xhtml as a new output format, that would be much too big of a change.
> On the other hand, obviously I want to help support the gcc web pages as
> much as I can.
> 
> Gerald and Janis, you were the proponents of <br />.  Can you advise
> please?

The GCC web pages that are written as html conform to XHTML 1.0
Transitional.  We wanted <br /> when we thought that our generated
web pages could conform to the same standard.  There are other issues
(particularly missing </li> and </p> tags) that prevent that, so we
no longer need <br />; I thought it had been removed from 4.2c, but
perhaps it's just not being generated for our files.

The output of makeinfo from your 4.2c pretest validates as HTML 4.01,
so we're currently adding DOCTYPEs for that to the generated web pages.
I just checked, and we're still using Texinfo 4.1; I think that Gerald
is planning to switch when there's a formal new release.

If you've got further changes that you'd like me to try locally with
the GCC pages, let me know.

Janis Johnson




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