SV: [Zope-CMF] Re: ZPT in CMF

Tres Seaver tseaver@zope.com
Thu, 06 Dec 2001 20:39:25 -0500


Bill Anderson wrote:

> I wrote:
>
> >PageTemplates must parse their source text, and therefore
> >don't function unless the source is valid HTML.  If you save
> >one with invalid HTML, the PT gives you a nice pink error
> >message, showing the line and column where you screwed up.
> 
> Well, just to check it, I pointed W3.org's validator at the CMFCollector
> front page. it had many errors. I tried all of the HTML 4.01 doctypes,
> as well as 3.2 just to be sure (since it didn't contain one).
> 
> What follows is the report for 4.01 Transitional.


<snip>


> Sorry, this document does not validate as HTML 4.01 Transitional.
> -----
> 
> Maybe I'm missing something?


Nope, you caught be being sloppy in my use of "valid" when what
I really meant was "well-formed".  Wrapping the form tag around
the table cells is a grotesquely ugly hack;  another in the
prolonged struggle to keep sites working for NS4 browsers.

Tres.
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