Re: ModifyHTML vs. strict.dtd

Dan Jacobson <[email protected]> writes:

> I like the ModifyHTML stuff, but I note that it causes strict.dtd
> documents to become invalid.
> 
> *** Errors validating jidanni.org: ***
> there is no attribute "COLOR"
> element "FONT" undefined
> document type does not allow element "STYLE" here
> NET-enabling start-tag requires SHORTTAG YES
> character data is not allowed here
> there is no attribute "ALIGN"
> 
> Perhaps more stylesheet gizmos could be used instead?

The problem is that a single set of modifications are applied to all
HTML files.  This means that if they require HTML4 features then HTML
validation will fail for HTML3 documents and if they are HTML3
features then validation will fail for HTML4 documents.

If you want to validate a page that WWWOFFLE has cached then you
should use 'wwwoffle -o <URL>' to get the HTML because this will
bypass the ModifyHTML section of the configuration file.

-- 
Andrew.
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