This is the mail archive of the
gcc@gcc.gnu.org
mailing list for the GCC project.
Re: http://gcc.gnu.org
On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 02:48:51PM -0700, Joe Buck wrote:
>
> > The GCC web pages that are generated by Texinfo 4.2 do not conform to
> > XHTML 1.0 Transitional as the pages claim. The web page maintainers
> > are discussing how to handle this.
>
> Option 1: fix texinfo. If that's out:
I sent mail to bug-texinfo@gnu.org but it hasn't shown up on their
archive yet so I don't know if it made it. I included an example
that showed several problems.
> They are not XHTML because end tags such as </p> that were formerly
> optional in earlier HTML versions are no longer optional. However,
> the pages should validate against earlier HTML DTD's, such as
> HTML 4.0 transitional. So:
>
> Option 2: if the page contains texinfo->html output, mark it as HTML 4.0
> transitional instead of as XHTML 1.0 transitional.
There's at least one problem that prevents validating as HTML 4.0.
Another possibility, perhaps, is to run the processed files through
HTML Tidy, which cleans them up quite nicely.
Janis