On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 1:12 PM, Mauritz Jeanson <> wrote:
> | -----Original Message-----
> | From: Bob Stayton
> |
> | I have had a long standing goal to modernize the HTML output
> | from the
> | DocBook XSL stylesheets. We have too many instances of
> | hardcoded styles like
> | <b> and other transgressions of modern HTML practice.
>
>
> One important point is to ensure that 100% valid and conformant output can
> be generated (both HTML and XHTML). Sometimes that is harder than it should
> be.
I don't think that generating valid HTML needs to be a short-term
goal. My suggestion would be to focus first on clean & valid XHTML
output, then decide how much more work (if any) it would take to
create valid HTML.
> And perhaps someone has an opinion on the claim that the current (X)HTML
> output suffers from "div-itis" (excessive use of <div> elements). See
> http://backtobase.wordpress.com/2007/06/20/docbook-is-not-making-my-life-eas
> ier/.
I don't find this a very concerning opinion at this time.
Keith
