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XHTML 1.0 Strict Links with Exponential

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Andreas Kaiser

Thursday 09 August 2007 3:00:28 pm

I found that the default ezxmltag for links is not compatible with Strict XHTML documents.

This is a working solution:

Override the "content/datatype/view/ezxmltags/link.tpl with

<a href={$href|ezurl}{section show=$id} id="{$id}"{/section}{section show=$title} title="{$title}"{/section}

{section show=$target}
{if $target|eq( _self )}
 
{elseif $target|eq( _blank )}
 class="external_link"
{/if}
{/section}

{section show=ne($classification|trim,'')}class="{$classification|wash}"{/section}>{$content}</a>

I've used "class="external_link" to style links that are marked with "open in a new window links".

If you need "_target" links you could use some DOM scripting that uses the rel="..." tag.

Any comments?

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Bruce Morrison

Thursday 09 August 2007 4:23:39 pm

Hi Andreas

Is this the only place where you have found issues?

I'd be interested to hear why you are using the strict DOCTYPE? I did attempt to go down this path quite some time ago (around 3.3/3.4) but just found too many issues in validating and quirkyness in the various browsers. It was much easier to settle on the Transitional DOCTYPE.

Interestingly there is a school of thought that says that XHTML shouldn't be used for most sites and I'm coming around to this side of things.

XHTML is not for Beginners
http://lachy.id.au/log/2005/12/xhtml-beginners

HTML vs. XHTML
http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/HTML_vs._XHTML

Cheers
Bruce

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Andreas Kaiser

Friday 10 August 2007 8:16:44 am

I was testing XHTML 1.0 Strict for a template for a client (it's funny, because their marketing department wanted a STRICT mode... it's a long story...)

Very interesting links...

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Web: http://www.atela.net/