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rmassart

New member

Registered: 2006-08-16

Posts: 3

Xinha is converting HTML to XHTML

Hi,

Xinha is converting the HTML created into XHTML. For example:

<area coords=".." ... >

Becomes:

<area coords=".." ... />

I've been aware of this for a while and it's never caused me any problems. Until now...

If I try to validate a page (against HTML 4.01 strict) with an image map in it the second form gives a validation error. The first doesn't.

Is there anyway of stopping Xinha from adding these backslashes?

Thanks,
Robin

wymsy

Xinha Community Member

From: Massachusetts, USA

Registered: 2005-04-01

Posts: 44

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Re: Xinha is converting HTML to XHTML

You must be using the getHtml plugin, because the built-in getHtml() function doesn't support the <area> tag (ticket #551). The getHtml plugin was designed to produce XHTML code, but you should be able to get rid of the backslashes by commenting out line 75:

  //  replace(c[4], '<$1$2 />').//terminate singlet tags

I haven't tried this, so I don't know what other problems it might cause.

rmassart

New member

Registered: 2006-08-16

Posts: 3

Re: Xinha is converting HTML to XHTML

Ok, thanks. I'll try that. Wasn't aware that I was using any plugins though. But I'll double check.

Thanks,
Robin