The quest for valid HTML

http://validator.w3.org/ does not like the HTML produced by
phpSlash-0.7.2,
due to three problems:

1. The templates contain xml-style tags like <br/>
2. Use of multiple IDs instead of class names,
   e.g. several <div id="fancyBox"> on one page
3. Writing plain & instead of &amp; in generated URLS,
   e.g. &slashSess= or

Anyway, this mail is only about the first problem.
According to

find . -type f -name '*.tpl' | xargs grep -i 'doctype' \
| sed -e /Transitional/d -e 's/:.*//'

there are 10 files with an explicit non-html doctype:

./public_html/templates/en/basic/article-wml.tpl
./public_html/templates/en/basic/article-xhtmlb.tpl
./public_html/templates/en/basic/backendRSS91.tpl
./public_html/templates/en/basic/backendWml.tpl
./public_html/templates/en/basic/backendXHTMLb.tpl
./public_html/templates/en/default/article-wml.tpl
./public_html/templates/en/default/article-xhtmlb.tpl
./public_html/templates/en/default/backendRSS91.tpl
./public_html/templates/en/default/backendWml.tpl
./public_html/templates/en/default/backendXHTMLb.tpl

Since I use none of the fancy CMS-like features I can only
guess that the rest is plain HTML. My recommended procedure
is to apply a global search-and-replace and then throw away
above files before doing a commit.

find . -type f -name '*.tpl' | xargs ./subst

where 'subst' is

perl -p -i.bak \
        -e 's#<\s*(\w)\s*/>#<$1>#g;' \
        -e 's#"\s*/>#">#g;' \
        -e 's#http://www.phpslash.org#http://phpslash.sourceforge.net#g'

The first expressions handles plains tags like

<br />

where there is a single tag-name between angle brackets.
The second one handles the cyclops smiley "/> that appears in

<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit" />

The third one is long overdue.


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