From: Stefan Schmiedl <s@...>
Date: 2004-12-09T05:32:29+09:00
Subject: IOWA and XHTML

Are there any plans to make IOWA XHTML-aware?

FWIW, I just did the following and with a suitable
xml intro the generated pages pass the w3-validator.

kind regards,
s.

diff -rN 1.8-old/iowa/Form.rb 1.8-new/iowa/Form.rb
265a266,267
> # xss 2004-12-08 option elements need to be closed in XHTML
>                                 context.response << closeTag


diff -rN 1.8-old/iowa/Tag.rb 1.8-new/iowa/Tag.rb
16a17,19
> # xss 2004-12-08 XHTML elements without content
>         SINGLE_ELEMENTS=%w(area base br col hr img input link meta
>         param)
> 
44,45c47,49
<                       else
<                               tag += " #{key}"
---
> # xss 2004-12-08 XHTML does not allow attributes without value
> #                     else
> #                             tag += " #{key}"
47a52,54
> # xss 2004-12-08 XHTML shorthand for closing element without content
> #                immediately
>                 tag += "/" if SINGLE_ELEMENTS.include?(tagName)