From: Carl Youngblood <carl@...>
Date: 2003-10-05T13:17:12+09:00
Subject: Question about amrita and XHTML/CSS

I've been looking into amrita for my ruby web development, but I am 
concerned about what I see as a potential conflict with my CSS 
stylesheets.  From what I can tell, amrita looks for items that I have 
given a specific id to, such as <div id="identifier">dynamic data goes 
here</div>, so that it can then replace them with my dynamic data and 
remove the id portion of the tag.

The problem I see is that I want the id tag to remain so that my CSS can 
use it to add formatting information to different portions of my page. 
I've been reading a good book called "Designing with Web Standards," by 
Jeff Zeldman, that strongly advocates the use of XHTML transitional with 
CSS to reduce page size, separate structure from presentation and 
improve cross-platform compatibility.  If amrita takes out all my id 
tags, how do I do CSS?

Thanks,
Carl