> -----Original Message-----
> From: darren chamberlain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Can someone confirm this?
>
> Yes:
>
Good I'm not mad :-)
> From CGI.pm, version 2.81:
>
> 35 # >>>>> Here are some globals that you might want to
> adjust <<<<<<
> 36 sub initialize_globals {
> 37 # Set this to 1 to enable copious autoloader
> debugging messages
> 38 $AUTOLOAD_DEBUG = 0;
> 39
> 40 # Set this to 1 to generate XTML-compatible output
> >> 41 $XHTML = 1;
> 42
> 43 # Change this to the preferred DTD to print in
> start_html()
> 44 # or use default_dtd('text of DTD to use');
> 45 $DEFAULT_DTD = [ '-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN',
> 46
>'http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd' ] ;
> 47
>
>Judging from line 35 you might want to adjust some of those globals.
>
>If you are using CGI in the OO way, you can just subclass CGI:
>
> package My::CGI;
>
> use base qw(CGI);
> sub initialize_globals {
> CGI::initialize_globals();
> $CGI::XHTML = 0;
> }
>
>And then:
>
> my $q = My::CGI->new;
>
>Of course, I haven't tested this.
>
>Another option is to call:
>
> CGI->import("-no_xhtml");
>
>at the top of your Registry script, which will be executed every time,
>whereas the "use CGI qw( -no_xhtml );" is only being called at compile
>time.
Lookout has givenup putting the '>'s in!..... grh
Thanks for those Darren,
With out wishing to be rude, the above are all workarrounds the bug (ie it
should not overide the -no_xhtml pragma), and we've used our own.
The subclssing one was good thou! and I did not know the CGI->import one.
Thanks,
Greg
(darren)
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