Handling Include code?

Hello,

I have some PHP Includes on my site. The Include data comes from
another site and are written with a Transitional Doc Type. So the
results have all of the <br>'s shown as <br />.

But my site is Strict 4.01 and I get validation errors for all the <br
/>'s.

Is there a way to convert all the <br />'s to <br>'s? Can you put
something in the .htaccess file or somewhere to force a conversion?

Thanks,

Bob

"BobK" <ergobob@sonic[REMOVE].net> wrote:

Hello,

I have some PHP Includes on my site. The Include data comes from
another site and are written with a Transitional Doc Type. So the
results have all of the <br>'s shown as <br />.

Sounds more like XHTML.

But my site is Strict 4.01 and I get validation errors for all the <br
/>'s.

Is there a way to convert all the <br />'s to <br>'s?

Yes: post-process the data in PHP. This means that instead of including
the data you have to download it and post-process it with a search &
replace. This is not 100% fail-safe though. The best way would be to parse
the XHTML (which is XML), and then convert it to HTML 4.01 strict. On the
other hand, that might be overkill.

Can you put
something in the .htaccess file or somewhere to force a conversion?

No.

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On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 05:55:14 -0800, "BobK" <ergobob@sonic[REMOVE].net>
wrote:

Hello,

I have some PHP Includes on my site. The Include data comes from
another site and are written with a Transitional Doc Type. So the
results have all of the <br>'s shown as <br />.

But my site is Strict 4.01 and I get validation errors for all the <br
/>'s.

Is there a way to convert all the <br />'s to <br>'s? Can you put
something in the .htaccess file or somewhere to force a conversion?

Thanks,

Bob

I think you'll have to go Loose for those pages, ergobob.

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Hello,

I have some PHP Includes on my site. The Include data comes from
another site and are written with a Transitional Doc Type. So the
results have all of the <br>'s shown as <br />.

But my site is Strict 4.01 and I get validation errors for all the <br
/>'s.

Is there a way to convert all the <br />'s to <br>'s? Can you put
something in the .htaccess file or somewhere to force a conversion?

Thanks,

Bob

They are using XHTML and not HTML. What you _could_ do is for those
pages that have the include, change it to XHTML. I would also suggest,
since you are using PHP, that you also change the headers so if a
browser accepts application xhtml+xml, serve it, otherwise, server
text/html.

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[..]
http://www.cavalcade-of-coding.info/...ics/index.html
http://www.cavalcade-of-coding.info/eclectia/index.php

404's here. (Also, you might want to link to /free_graphics/ instead of
index.html, ditto for /eclectia/ )

(Likes spiders too)


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writing in news:Xns9A48BD3827617castleamber (AT) 130 (DOT) 133.1.4:

Adrienne Boswell <arbpen (AT) yahoo (DOT) com> wrote:

[..]
http://www.cavalcade-of-coding.info/...ics/index.html
http://www.cavalcade-of-coding.info/eclectia/index.php

404's here. (Also, you might want to link to /free_graphics/ instead of
index.html, ditto for /eclectia/ )

(Likes spiders too)

You know, I keep forgetting to remove those links, and then I say "someday
I'm going to fix that" and it forget again.

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