Elementtree (python xml parser) will transform markup like <tag boo="baa"></tag>
into <tag boo="baa" /> which is a reasonable thing to do for xml (called minimization, I think). But this caused an obscure problem when I used it to create the xhtml parts of my website, causing Internet Explorer to display nearly blank pages. I explain the details at http://lee-phillips.org/scripttag/ and am writing here as a heads-up to anyone who might be using a workflow similar to mine: writing documents in xml and using python and elementtree to transform those into xhtml webpages, and using the standard kludge of serving them as text/html to IE, to get around the latter's inability to handle xml. I can't be the only one (and I doubt this problem is confined to elementtree). Lee Phillips -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
