From cowan@ccil.org Thu Nov 29 19:57:34 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: cowan@mercury.ccil.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_0_1); 30 Nov 2001 03:57:34 -0000 Received: (qmail 43641 invoked from network); 30 Nov 2001 03:57:34 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.172) by m4.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 30 Nov 2001 03:57:34 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mercury.ccil.org) (192.190.237.100) by mta2.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 30 Nov 2001 03:57:34 -0000 Received: from cowan by mercury.ccil.org with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 169eo5-0002m6-00 for ; Thu, 29 Nov 2001 22:57:45 -0500 Subject: Re: [lojban] [WWWW] lojban.org transferred! In-Reply-To: <20011129185901.D27369@digitalkingdom.org> from Robin Lee Powell at "Nov 29, 2001 06:59:01 pm" To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 22:57:45 -0500 (EST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL66 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: X-eGroups-From: John Cowan From: John Cowan X-Yahoo-Profile: johnwcowan Robin Lee Powell scripsit: > Can you give me a basic idea of why I should be interested in xhtml, or > a pointer to same? I've never heard of it before. Basically, it's just good HTML, with all tags balanced (start and end both) written in lower case, and with a / at the end of each empty tag. But it means that clean, small XML parsers can interpret it correctly, not just browsers. If anyone is messing with existing HTML, I strongly recommend the use of HTML Tidy, a highly portable command line program (there's a Java version as well as the canonical C one). It fixes up junk HTML, even the abortions produced by M$ products. And it can make XHMTL with the -xml switch. http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett/tidy/ -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org Please leave your values | Check your assumptions. In fact, at the front desk. | check your assumptions at the door. --sign in Paris hotel | --Miles Vorkosigan