As long as you're serving XHTML as text/html it isn't XML anyway. It's just HTML with some weird slashes where they don't belong. Any browser will use its tag soup parser.
Mime type matters, Doctype not. http://annevankesteren.nl/2004/07/mime And that's why you can safely use HTML if you add elements on the fly with typical HTML style. --Klaus On Feb 24, 5:18 am, timothytoe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK. Since I'm creating so much of the web site on the fly, there's > really no way of knowing whether I'm valid or not, is there? I mean > it's pretty easy to make my trivial, skeletal html (or php) file > valid--there's hardly anything in it! > > I tried to go through all the paths and validate. I guess I'm OK if > all I get are warnings that complain about the validator seeing an > HTML version of the DOM rather than a XHTML version. > > Oh, and <canvas> is not valid. Nothing to be done about that, right? > > On Feb 23, 6:36 pm, "Karl Rudd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > It's not a problem. > > > I assume you're viewing the DOM tree via Firebug (or something > > similar)? If so then what you're seeing is a representation of the > > tree that Firebug is generating. > > > The concept of XHTML vs HTML (vs XML) is pretty much gone after the > > (X)HTML is parsed and turned into the DOM tree. There's no need for > > keeping around the quotes, '/>' or other "delimiters" as each of the > > elements now exists as a node, not as some textual representation. > > > Karl Rudd > > > On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 10:52 AM, timothytoe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Not sure this is 100% jQuery's problem. > > > > I do this: > > > > $("#logo").html("<img src='images/logosmall.gif' alt='logopic' />"); > > > > But what lands in the browser is this: > > > > <div id="logo"><img src="images/logosmall.gif" alt="logopic"></div> > > > > Interestingly, the single quotes have been converted to double quotes > > > and the trailing " /" has been lost, which kills my validation. > > > > Is it jQuery being funny here or the browser itself? What should I do? > > > > If it helps, my PHP file stats like this: > > > > <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" > > > "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd";> > > > <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";> > > > <head> > > > <meta name="generator" content="HTML Tidy for Linux/x86 (vers 11 > > > February 2007), seewww.w3.org" />
