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"Simon St.Laurent" wrote:

> I won't. Having just finished a book on XHTML, I expect the XHTML 'legacy'
> rules to be with us for something too close to eternity, and find your
> belief in straight--up XML output downright dangerous.
>[...]
> It's going to be two or three browser versions before the glitches
> involving empty tags and PIs are behind us, and users aren't that quick to
> change. Even programmers' toolkits, notably Swing, tend to choke when fed
> XHTML.

Yes, it's obvious that the nightmare of handling both different releases
of (X)HTML and also probably vendor differences is going to last for a
while.

Is there anything else than the C.2 and C.3 appendixes to implement ?

I am also wondering if it wouldn't help to implement an "adaptable"
output handler which accommodate some of the differences between
browsers releases.

There are many techniques to select a different XSLT transformation
according to the browser identified by the HTTP header, but it means
that you have to maintain a set of transformations.

If you could generate a generic XHTML within your XSLT transformation
and let the output handler adjust to some of the more recent browsers
(TBD), it could be great.

I know that most of the nasty incompatibilities are with Javascript and
CSS, but still, isn't it an idea to investigate ?

Eric

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