Make --html4tags the default?

[Michel Fortin]

Le 2007-05-02 à 17:24, Allan Odgaard a écrit :


> Seeing how no-one should send application/xhtml+xml to the browser  

> [1], and development of the HTML standard is again happening [2],  

> it would make sense to have Markdown.pl default to HTML tags.

>

> Maybe too late to change a default though.


I wouldn't change the default for the reasons John has enumerated.  
But I wouldn't remove the configuration option so easily either so  
people can still choose the HTML 4 syntax if they like. HTML 5  
accepts both syntaxes as conformant in the current draft, a good  
middle ground in my opinion.



> How does PHP Markdown and other implementations deal with this issue?


In the PHP Markdown file, there is a setting for this:

     # Change to ">" for HTML output
     define( 'MARKDOWN_EMPTY_ELEMENT_SUFFIX',  " />");

You can also set it programatically on a per-parser basis for when  
you instantiate your own parser object:

     $parser = new Markdown_Parser;
     $parser->empty_element_suffix = ">";

     $html = $parser->transform($text);



Michel Fortin
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