[tex4ht] [bug #434] HTML mode is spewing some XML code

[William F Hammond]

I agree that it's ridiculous at this point to be spinning out html4.
(Gellmu still does it for the terminal-window-web-browser html stream.)

But just let me note that that the text/html serialization of html5 accepts
html4 notation for classical html defined-empty elements such as <br> and
<hr>.

         -- Bill



On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 11:22 AM Karl Berry <karl at freefriends.org> wrote:

> Update of bug #434 (project tex4ht):
>
>                   Status:                    None => Wont Fix
>
>              Open/Closed:                    Open => Closed
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> Follow-up Comment #4:
>
> Hi Hilmar - well, I agree it is a bug, since html4 is being requested.
> Unfortunately <br /> and <hr /> are ubiquitious in tex4ht-html4.tex; I
> guess
> Eitan didn't know about the problem.
>
> It does not seem straightforward at all to factor them all out so they are
> conditional on html4. And I believe all that code is used for other html
> variants, so just removing the slashes would mean xhtml output etc. would
> no
> longer validate, so that's not viable.
>
> Since html5 is pretty widespread by now, it's hard for me and Michal to
> work
> up a lot of enthusiasm for tinkering with the html4 output. I know that's
> sad,
> but there it is. Of course reasonable patches would be welcome (good luck
> :).
>
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