Re: CSS & MHonArc markup experiment

[Ulrich Mayring <ulim@xxxxxxxx>]

Earl Hood wrote:
> On March 9, 2004 at 13:29, Ulrich Mayring wrote:
>
>
> > 1) In many places mhonarc generates unclosed tags such as <br>. We 
> > changed that to <br/>, but perhaps <br /> would be better.
>
> This can be done by changing layout resources, not the code.

Just grep the sources and you'll find many places, where <br> is 
hard-coded. Perhaps all of them can be changed with layout resources, 
but there is no way to know :)

> > 2) We delete characters that are invalid XML characters.
>
> There is the CHARSETCONVERTERS and TEXTENCODE resources for
> controling how characters are converted.  With TEXTENCODE, you
> can convert everything to UTF-8.

We are converting to utf-8, but that doesn't get rid of invalid XML 
characters (which may be valid utf-8 characters).

> > 3) We escape <, > and & with &lt; &gt; &amp;
>
> MHonArc already does this.

We kept getting unknown entity" errors, when there was something like 
Mike&Lisa in the mail. Perhaps that escaping is not done in our 
configuration (plain text filter).

I'll ask my colleague for details today, he wasn't available yesterday.

Ulrich

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Ulrich Mayring
DENIC eG, Systementwicklung