From: Hannu Krosing [mailto:hannu@tm.ee] Sent: Friday, March 03, 2000 11:12 AM To: Sin Hang Kin Cc: Zope Admin list Subject: Re: [Zope] Zope DHTML and XHTML : Moving things to the Client-side
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3. Make the current Zope tag comply with xml standards : they should end with /> or accept an end tag.
Why ? As has been revealed in several discussions before, it would be very limiting for DTML to force compliance to XML (dtml tags inside html tags, etc)
I have not followed the discussions you're referring to, so this may be old news to you, but one simple way to provide XML compliance without screwing up the HTML is to require that the HTML -- or whatever you're rendering -- must be properly UTF-8 encoded. This is probably the least painful way of attaining XML compliance. Unfortunately, it *will* be painful unless you're also using an XML-compliant editor. The low-level DTML source will end up looking a bit like this: <html> <head><title><var name="title_or_id"/></title> </head> [...] </html> The editor takes care of the en-/decoding of character entities. An obvious alternative is to use XHTML and XML namespaces, which would currently -- because clients aren't usually XHTML-aware -- incur additional XHTML-to-HTML processing on the server side. -- Alexander Staubo http://alex.mop.no/ "What the hell, he thought, you're only young once, and threw himself out of the window. That would at least keep the element of surprise on his side." --Douglas Adams, _The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy_