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Re: Fw: Re: XHTML Stylesheets
/ "Lars Trieloff" <lars@trieloff.net> was heard to say:
| Hi,
>> | My question is if would not be the best to create seperate xhtml
>> | stylesheets
>>
>> No.
I said that, didn't I? Ok, I've changed my mind. Yes.
But, they are automatically generated from the HTML stylesheets, no
human intervention allowed. This strategy is now employed in the CVS
version of the stylesheets.
This overcomes the otherwise unsurmountable problem of how to get the
proper namespace name on all of the elements in the HTML file.
| For creating valid XHTML 1.0 Strict/XHTML 1.1 we will have to
| - change the doctype
Done.
| - remove all presentation elements such as
| + font
There was only one, it's been changed to <span class="ERROR">
| + basefont
Not used.
| - remove all presentation attributes such as
| + <body bgcolor="...
| + <body text="...
| + link, vlink, alink
Done. The XHTML stylesheets override the body.attributes named template
to make it empty.
| + width, height e.g in tables, images
Uhm, well, this is harder. But if you don't put them in your source
document, you won't get them in the output.
| + anchors need to be <a id="..." instead of <a name="
Tricky, but I think it's fixed.
| + img must have an alt attribute, even if it is empty (omitting is not
| allowed)
Mumble. I think I'd be happier if authors always provided alt text.
| + one thing that was already mentioned, the proper nesting of elements:
| there are no div elemtents allowed inside p elements (validator.w3.org says:
| "Error: element "div" not allowed here; possible cause is an inline element
| containing a block-level element"),
| so we have to replace nearly all p elements by div elements, one exception
| would be the simpara-->p transformation, which seems to be ok.
| this are the first things that have come into mind, so this list has to be
| filled.
This needs work, but I haven't done the work yet.
| enjoy your sunday.
Thanks. Ok, so it was four or five Sundays ago, but this is a hectic
time of year :-)
Be seeing you,
norm
P.S. Happy New Year to you all!
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