Re: xhtml errors

Rich Bowen <[email protected]> Tue, 2 Jun 2026 15:45:05 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.apache.documentation
Message-ID <[email protected]>

> On Jun 2, 2026, at 3:39=E2=80=AFPM, Andr=C3=A9 Malo <[email protected]> =
wrote:
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> Rich Bowen wrote:
>>> On Jun 2, 2026, at 3:13=E2=80=AFPM, Andr=C3=A9 Malo <[email protected]> =
wrote:
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>>> Hi Rich,
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>>> Rich Bowen wrote:
>>>> Ok, I think that this is because in my changes to make stuff more
>>>> mobile-friendly, I introduced HTML5 stuff.
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>>> [...]
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>>> Thanks. One question:
>>>> -            <xsl:when test=3D"$type =3D 'manual' or
>>>> -                            $type =3D 'chm' or
>>>> -                            $type =3D 'zip'">
>>>> -                <xsl:text>xml</xsl:text>
>>>> +            <xsl:when test=3D"$type =3D 'manual'">
>>>> +                <xsl:text>html</xsl:text>
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>>> Are you removing the other targets on purpose?
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>> I remove chm because we never generated those any more. Removing zip =
was
>> *not* intentional, and I added that back in when I actually committed =
this.
>> Do we want to still generate chm files? Do we publish those anywhere?
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> Good question. We used to generate manually on release. It required a =
windows=20
> setup (with all the locales installed) and that chm generator tool =
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> Microsoft. I don't know if that even still exists.
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> I personally liked those files, though. But then, last time I =
generated them I=20
> still ran Windows XP or something in a VirtualBox just for that :-)

Well, if someone wants to do that, it=E2=80=99s one line to add back in. =
But I don=E2=80=99t have access to a Windows machine, and yes I could =
use a VM, but I wouldn=E2=80=99t really know if what I produced was what =
anyone wanted. It=E2=80=99s certainly no cost to add a couple of bytes =
back to that file, though.