On 27 Aug 2008, at 22:53, Eric Palmitesta wrote:
One such quirk: Childless elements with no internal nodes and an
explicit closing tag are automatically folded into elements with no
closing tag. <div></div>, which is valid xhtml, will become <div />
after being processed by MarkLogic (breaks visual representation).
Some better examples are <script ...></script> and <textarea></
textarea>, which are expected to contain no internal nodes in xhtml.
I've taken to writing things like
<script ... >{" "}</script>
or
<textarea> </textarea>
which successfully preserves the explicit closing tag, keeping xhtml
happy. Is there a more elegant way to do this?
Are there other banana-peels I should watch out for when generating
xhtml with xquery? Is creating an entire website by generating
xhtml with xquery generally frowned upon, or accepted? Admittedly,
it seems less flexible than a <web language>-based site, however the
xdmp namespace seems to provide sufficient functionality, and
transforming xml data into xhtml is incredibly easy with xquery.
Though it's not relevant to your particular problem, this is the
reason that we've stopped generating XHTML and gone back to outputting
HTML4. Trying to do XHTML in a text/html environment is fraught with
troubles like these.
Some more details:
http://hixie.ch/advocacy/xhtml
-Dom
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