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Re: [xml] htmlDocDumpMemory() vs xmlDocDumpMemory()

Hi Julien,

On Mar 1, 2009, at 2:06 AM, Julien Chaffraix wrote:


Hi Rush,


Here is a sample of rendered output, using htmlDocDumpMemory():

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">

Ok, so here is the line that causes your troubles. This doctype puts
the document in quirks mode. Switching to the following version (the
strict HTML 4.0 doctype) should solve your issue.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN">

It may be even better to drop the end and use instead
<!DOCTYPE HTML>

It is what HTML5 requires (see
http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-doctype).


As it turns out, my real problem is that I process this with a XSL  
stylesheet, and its output statement is incorrect for generating  
XHTML. If I correct that, then I can specify anything in my XHTML page  
source doctype declaration (including my DTD) and libxml will generate  
the strict XHTML doctype in the output when I use xmlDocDumpMemory().

<snip>


To me, the XHML output looks to be better behaved and it sounds  
like your

recommendation would be to keep my output as XHTML.

If you just want to test your output in a browser then XHTML is fine
(which is what I thought you were trying) and will not require much
effort so I would go for it.
If you need to ship for all browsers, then it will not do as Internet
Explorer does not support XHTML.


My app is a special purpose browser that must work cross platform. I  
changed my XSL stylesheet to generate html when I was trying to make  
the Windows version work using their browser control. That was the  
start of my two step screw up, finished when I changed to use  
htmlDocDumpMemory().

I'm experimenting with Qt, since they make Webkit available on all  
platforms. If that works out I will change my XSL so it generates  
strict XHTML. If it doesn't work out, I'll need to so something nasty  
to deal with Windows. I'm hoping for Qt. :-)

Thank you very much for the help,
Rush















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