Posted by David Dorward on 01/23/06 21:06

Marc wrote:
>> My own CMS takes XHTML input but runs it through some XSLT to
>> output HTML 4.01, and this works pretty well for me.

> For what reason? Why not just take HTML input and save your CMS the
> work of converting it using XSLT?

I had a lot of content in XHTML format already (from my XHTML fanboy days),
and it makes it easier to convert content to ATOM and other XML formats.

There is also the issues of things which are technically fine in HTML, but
cause problems in browsers (I had IE fail to recognise an entity because I
terminated it with a non-name character instead of a semi-colon recently).
Converting from XHTML to HTML generally avoids those issues.

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