Re: first steps with mod_perl

On 9 Oct 2007, at 04:04, Marek wrote:
> if I understand well, it is extremely difficult to make CGI.pm produce
> valid html
>
> My problem are the many <p /> tags in the form - and the checked
> instead of checked="checked" in the input-tags. But probably I am not
> yet understanding CGI.pm?

It has been a long while since I tried generating HTML with CGI.pm  
(these days I lean very strongly towards Template-Toolkit), but I'd  
be surprised if it produced <p /> since its either non-Appendix C  
conformant, nonsensical XHTML (a content-less paragraph) or its, in  
HTML, "Start of paragraph followed by a greater than sign" and using  
features marked as badly sup****ted - avoid.

checked rather than checked="checked" is fine in HTML  
(checked="checked" is another of the "avoid this, its badly  
sup****ted" features).

According to the CGI.pm do***entation, it defaults to XHTML (so it  
should be outputting checked="checked") unless you use -dtd to  
specify an HTML 2.0 or 3.2 DTD. (Why not HTML 4.x I've no idea). You  
can also use the -no_xhtml pragma to turn off XHTML generation.

Turning off XHTML generation is generally a good thing: http:// 
www.webdevout.net/articles/beware-of-xhtml

.... but I'll stick to Template-Toolkit

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David Dorward
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