[ZPT] Why does this cause a page template to be invalid?(longish)

[Phil Harris]

----- Original Message -----
From: "seb bacon" <seb@jamkit.com>
Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 12:22 PM
Subject: Re: [ZPT] Why does this cause a page template to be
invalid?(longish)


> Don't know what's going on there, but I reduced it to a simpler test
> case:
>
> <p>
>   <div>
>
>   </div>
> </p>
>
> If you replace the <div>s with inline elements like <span>s, it works;
> if you use block elements like <table>, it doesn't.

Yep, that's what I've seen as well.

>
> I wonder if this is a buggy version of strict XHTML checking?  You're
> not meant to put block elements inside span elements, IFAIK.

granted, my problem is that this is the 'html' output from MSWord.  I do a
fair bit of massaging to get it to the state I posted.

Strange thing is that in the 'buggy' state no browser I've tried it in so
far complains, only the PT parser ?!?

oh well! Looks like I'll have to parse it some more.

>
> seb
>
> On Mon, 2002-03-18 at 11:31, Phil Harris wrote:
> > I have a PageTemplate with this content:
> >
> > <span
metal:use-macro="here/ASPIRE_MainTemplate/macros/ASPIRE_mainMacro">
> > <span metal:fill-slot="ASPIRE_mainbody">
> > <div class=Section1>
> > <p class=MsoNormal><span
> > class="s-ASPIRE-1">
> > <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 align=left>
> >  <tr>
> >   <td width=37 height=0></td>
> >   <td width=113></td>
> >   <td width=28></td>
> >   <td width=69></td>
> >   <td width=284></td>
> >  </tr>
> >  <tr>
> >   <td height=25></td>
> >   <td colspan=2 rowspan=2 width=141 height=39 align=left valign=top
> >   bgcolor=white class="s-ASPIRE-2"><span class="s-ASPIRE-3">
> >   <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width="100%">
> >    <tr>
> >     <td>
> >     <div v:shape="_x0000_s1026" class="s-ASPIRE-4"
> >     class=shape>
> >     <p class=MsoNormal>This is floating</p>
> >     </div>
> >     </td>
> >    </tr>
> >   </table>
> >   </span>&nbsp;</td>
> >  </tr>
> >  <tr>
> >   <td height=14></td>
> >   <td></td>
> >   <td rowspan=2 align=left valign=top><img width=284 height=122
> >   src="./doc2/image001.gif" alt="Your Text Here"
> > v:shapes="_x0000_s1028"></td>
> >  </tr>
> >  <tr>
> >   <td height=108></td>
> >  </tr>
> >  <tr>
> >   <td height=9></td>
> >  </tr>
> >  <tr>
> >   <td height=97></td>
> >   <td></td>
> >   <td colspan=2 align=left valign=top><img width=97 height=97
> >   src="./doc2/image002.gif" v:shapes="_x0000_s1027"></td>
> >  </tr>
> > </table>
> > </span>&nbsp;</p>
> > </div>
> > </span>
> > </span>
> >
> > The error message is:
> >
> > Compilation failed
> > TAL.HTMLTALParser.NestingError: Open tag <span> does not match close tag
> > </p>, at line 48, column 14
> >
> > OK, well removing the <p> start and end tags fixes the problem, but why
> > should there be an error in the first place?
> >
> > AFAICS there is no mismatch in the tags.
> >
> > tia
> >
> > Phil
> >
> >
> >
> >
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