[Zpt] XHTML validation and <span>

[Martijn Pieters]

On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 09:22:29AM -0500, Todd Coram wrote:
> I may be the only one goofing this up, but XHTML doesn't allow "arbitrary" use of <span>.  I have been using spans pretty liberally, but this is illegal:
> 
> <span metal:define-macro="something">
>    <p> Just something </p>
>    <p> That needs to be said... </p>
> </span>
> 
> Span cannot contain elements like <p>. It is supposed to only be used for inline-elements. Browsers don't complain and non-validating parsers (like ZPT), don't complain, but I guess I should be doing stuff  like:
> 
> <div metal:define-macro="something">
>   <p> Just something </p>
>   <p> That needs to be said... </p>
> </div>

Yup, that'd be the right thing to do. You have to play very carefully with
XML :)

The following is also illegal, for example:

 <title>The title is:
        <span tal:replace="here/title">object title</span>
 </title>

because only text is allowed inside <title>. The solution here is to use a
well-aimed define, like: "python:'The title is: ' + here.title".

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