Lee wrote: > 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
It's not just Elementtree that does this .. I've seen others libraries (admittedly in other languages I won't mention here) transform empty tags to the self-terminating form. A whitespace text node or comment node in between *should* prevent that from happening. AFAIK, the only tag in IE xhtml that really doesn't like to be reduced like that is the <script > tag. Firefox seems to be fine w/ self-terminating <script /> tags. At any rate, I tend to put a comment node in between the begin and end to prevent the reduction: <script src=" ... " type="text/javascript"><!-- --></script> --David -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
