Re: first steps with mod_perl

[email protected] (Gunnar Hjalmarsson)
Newsgroups perl.beginners.cgi
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Marek wrote:
> First question: this cgi script inserts an strange DOC-Type, from
> which I have never heard off:
> 
> <!DOCTYPE html
> 	PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML Basic 1.0//EN"
> 	"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-basic/xhtml-basic10.dtd">
> 
> May I force mod_perl to insert an other doc-type? For example:
> 
> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
>         "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

What has mod_perl to do with it?

Rather than trying to figure out how to make CGI.pm do it, why don't you 
skip the start_html() function and print directly the HTML version info 
you like.

> Or is this probably the configuration on the server,

No.

> I am trying to produce valid html. ... Under xhtml-sctrict should be 
> inserted: checked="checked"! How to achieve this?

Other than printing the checkbox manually, I don't know.

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