I've long wanted to make DocBook's XHTML cleaner, and I've started on it more than once. But my approach was too big, looking at the entire XHTML design, and so each time it was put off due to lack of time.

As people have pointed out, perhaps only a few elements need to be changed. We could have a parameter (xhtml.clean?), and add xsl:choose statements to some element templates to produce alternate output if that parameter is set. What would really help me is a list of elements that need this treatment.

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
DocBook Consulting
bobs@sagehill.net

El Martes, 15 de Mayo de 2007 17:47, Bob Stayton escribió:
> I've long wanted to make DocBook's XHTML cleaner, and I've started on it
> more than once. But my approach was too big, looking at the entire XHTML
> design, and so each time it was put off due to lack of time.
>
> As people have pointed out, perhaps only a few elements need to be changed.
> We could have a parameter (xhtml.clean?), and add xsl:choose statements to
> some element templates to produce alternate output if that parameter is
> set. What would really help me is a list of elements that need this
> treatment.


IMHO, the first step would be to create a set of XHTML pages containing how
each DB element, and its attributes, should be mapped into XHTML-1.1 +
Ascessibility (valid XHTML-1.1 could be served as valid XHTML-1.0 if needed
for browsers compatibility).

Having that example mapping to know the actual changes needed, can be
evaluated if that xhtml.clean parameter could be used, if the current xhtml/
templates could be full-changed to generate the new code, or if will be
better to have two separate xhtml templates sets: the current one plus a new
xhtml1.1 tree.




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Regarding the empty divs, what about a post-processing step (like one
pass profiling, but on the other end) that processes the output and
turns this:



Into this:



If you had a div with a class that had a child div with a class and the
child div didn't have any following siblings, you could even combine the
classes, to