On 9 Oct 2007, at 04:04, Marek wrote:
if I understand well, it is extremely difficult to make CGI.pm produce
valid html
My problem are the many <p /> tags in the form - and the checked
instead of checked="checked" in the input-tags. But probably I am not
yet understanding CGI.pm?
It has been a long while since I tried generating HTML with CGI.pm
(these days I lean very strongly towards Template-Toolkit), but I'd
be surprised if it produced <p /> since its either non-Appendix C
conformant, nonsensical XHTML (a content-less paragraph) or its, in
HTML, "Start of paragraph followed by a greater than sign" and using
features marked as badly supported - avoid.
checked rather than checked="checked" is fine in HTML
(checked="checked" is another of the "avoid this, its badly
supported" features).
According to the CGI.pm documentation, it defaults to XHTML (so it
should be outputting checked="checked") unless you use -dtd to
specify an HTML 2.0 or 3.2 DTD. (Why not HTML 4.x I've no idea). You
can also use the -no_xhtml pragma to turn off XHTML generation.
Turning off XHTML generation is generally a good thing: http://
www.webdevout.net/articles/beware-of-xhtml
... but I'll stick to Template-Toolkit
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