Re: Generate XHTML (HTML compatible) Code using DOMDocument

As michael said my main reason is strictness. It's much easier to parse a document when an XML parser can read it. I like the idea of closing tags etc. On Apr 14, 2009, at 4:38 PM, Raymond Irving <xwisdom@yahoo.com> wrote:

Hi, I'm thinking about using the html5 doctype for all html documents since it's supported by all the popular browsers available today. Two Quick questions... Why do we need to send XHTML code to a web browser when standard html code (with html 5 doctype) will do just fine? Is there any advantage of using xhtml in the web browser over html for normal web application development? __ Raymond Irving --- On Tue, 4/14/09, Peter Ford <pete@justcroft.com> wrote:

From: Peter Ford <pete@justcroft.com> Subject: Re: [PHP] Generate XHTML (HTML compatible) Code using DOMDocument To: php-general@lists.php.net Date: Tuesday, April 14, 2009, 5:05 AM Michael Shadle wrote:

On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 2:19 AM, Michael A. Peters

<mpeters@mac.com> wrote:

The problem is that validating xhtml does not

necessarily render properly in

some browsers *cough*IE*cough*

I've never had problems and my work is primarily

around IE6 / our

corporate standards. Hell, even without a script type

it still works

:)

Would this function work for sending html and

solve the utf8 problem?

function makeHTML($document) { $buffer =

$document->saveHTML();

$output =

html_entity_decode($buffer,ENT_QUOTES,"UTF-8");

return $output; } I'll try it and see what it does.

this was the only workaround I received for the

moment, and I was a

bit afraid it would not process the full range of

utf-8; it appeared

on a quick check to work but I wanted to run it on our

entire database

and then ask the native geo folks to examine it for

correctness. I find that IE7 (at least) is pretty reliable as long as I use strict XHTML and send a DOCTYPE header to that effect at the top - that seems to trigger a standard-compliant mode in IE7. At least then I only have to worry about the JavaScript incompatibilities, and the table model, and the event model, and .... --Peter Ford phone: 01580 893333 Developer fax: 01580 893399 Justcroft International Ltd., Staplehurst, Kent --PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

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