Re: [Phpgroupware-developers] Proposal for XHTML/CSS/JavaScript usage

[Dan Kuykendall]

Dave Hall wrote:

> Kai Hofmann <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>  
>
> I wanted to make 16 HTML 4.01 Transitional comliant, but then looked at
> how much work was involved in just acheiving that, and gave up.  XHTML
> is nice but is even more work.
>  
switching to xslt will help with this alot

>  
>
> > 2) Verifing all HTML pages via the W3C validator
> >  All XHTML pages should be correct and verified via the W3C 
> > validator.   Hint: 
> >  Live would become easier if it would be possible to verify the 
> > templates   directly before processing - this is not possible now, 
> > because of the
> >  structure of the templates and its usage.
> >
> >    
>
> I is possible to create a non cookie based session where the ip is not
> verfied and get the online validator to use that, but that will take a
> lot of time.  Validating template can be very difficult, as some apps
> add html to the tpls.
>  
Here is another really nifty thing about using xslt. It will be possible 
to save a copy of the various xml results and then have validator used 
the canned xml data against the xsl templates.

> As with the removing php comments from release code, CVS updates become
> a nightmare.
>  
yep


> Also who is going to spend the time implementing this in the
> unmaintained apps?
>  
the real question