Subject: Re: patch -- HTML export bug
From: Paul Rohr (paul@abisource.com)
Date: Fri Feb 11 2000 - 21:06:32 CST
At 10:30 PM 2/10/00 -0600, sterwill@abisource.com wrote:
>sam th wrote:
>> The attached patch fixes bug 629 (<p> vs <br> in HTML) and adds some html
>> tags we were missing (<head>, <body>, etc). I also changed <DIV> tags
>> to <div>. Now, with approporiate <!DOCTYPE..> declarations, our HTML
>> export parses as valid HTML 4.01, and as valid XHTML 1.0. Additionally,
>> it renders indentically on every netscape browser from 3.0 to Mozilla (pre
>> 5.0). I know there are people who don't like this idea, but I think we
>> should add a declaration that our documents are XHTML to the export code.
>> Those suggesting a seperate XHTML exporter should be aware that the
>> <!DOCTYPE> would be the ONLY difference between the two.
>> Also, I changed the suffix-recognizer to recognize .htm as well as .html.
>> I know that .htm is evil, but there are people who use it. Thus, we
>> should at least recognize it.
>
>Committed (sorry for the delay, still digging out of the 0.7.8 release
>work). I haven't gone through Bugzilla and marked these for QA, feel
>free to do so.
Sam,
Please recheck this patch to make sure we applied it properly. HTML export
is now badly broken. There are no P tags generated, and all H# tags are
unclosed.
Paul
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