netbsd-bugs: Re: misc/32221

Subject: Re: misc/32221
To: None <mishka@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,>
From: Mike M. Volokhov <mishka@NetBSD.org>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 03/07/2006 17:40:02

The following reply was made to PR misc/32221; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Mike M. Volokhov" <mishka@NetBSD.org>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: misc/32221
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 19:38:09 +0200

 Okay, looking bit closer to our XML web-site I've found we are
 relatively near the HTML 4.01 Transitional format. Most of pages now
 can be built HTML compliant without further modifications (very often
 "bug" is an <html xmlns=""> attributes which was recently almost
 eliminated).

 But our first problem is that XML files are completely invalid
 themselves, and this may cause HTML validity breakage. In short summary:

   - intensively used custom elements without DTD/schema support;
   - using limited Simplified DocBook XML Customization DTD (man-refs problem);

 Now I'm pretty sure the following way should be used here:

   1. work close with <hrs> to achieve powerful and lightweight DTD;
   2. support authors/editors with validity tools ("make valid");
   3. work even close with <hrs> to provide correct XSLT stylesheets
      for our own tags (Website XSL looks good enough already);

 --
 Mishka.