obscure problem using elementtree to make xhtml website

[Rami Chowdhury]

>> basically any tag that can
>> have content in html you had better close the html way (<tag></tag>),
>> or IE will see it as unclosed and will not display the rest of the
>> page after the tag (or do something else unexpected). Not a bug in IE
>> (this time), which is correctly parsing the file as html.
>
> ... which is obviously not the correct thing to do when it's XHTML.

Not correct, of course, but AFAIK it's a very common hack indeed.

If the goal is to produce XHTML that will work as text/html, have you  
considered using one of the myriad templating libraries? IIRC a lot (if  
not most) of them support "HTMLish" output for precisely that reason.

On Thu, 03 Sep 2009 12:09:22 -0700, Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml at behnel.de>  
wrote:

> Lee wrote:
>> basically any tag that can
>> have content in html you had better close the html way (<tag></tag>),
>> or IE will see it as unclosed and will not display the rest of the
>> page after the tag (or do something else unexpected). Not a bug in IE
>> (this time), which is correctly parsing the file as html.
>
> ... which is obviously not the correct thing to do when it's XHTML.
>
> Stefan



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