[dokuwiki] status of xhtml strictness

Hallo list!

I just wanted to inform you how far I got with seeing to better xhtml strictness of DokuWiki. What is still left:

1. Removal of all occurrences of document.write():
Andi did much of that already because of his making the JavaScript unobtrusive. But there are still two occurrences left.

2. Unique ids:
Although unique ids in the TOC was a big step and the example given in FS#692 is fixed, there are still many occurrences of ids that could clash with same ids (~headlines) in the content. (I counted 38, although not all of them are as necessary as simple ids like "remember" and "spell_error". Some are not likely to occur again like "edbtn_save" or "fnt1", but I'd like to be sure.) Unfortunately many/a few (?) of the ids are important for JavaScripts and other things (?). I can fix everything in the the css files, but I don't dare changing the other things, because I'm not in the know about those.

Should the approach for unique ids be postponed until *after* the next release? Or should that go in now?
I have a list of all 38 cases, where we should exchange the id. Shall I post it somewhere? On the mailinglist or on wiki.splitbrain.org?

3. Change all named entities to numeric entities (or UTF-8 characters):
<blockquote cite="http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200501/the_perils_of_using_xhtml_properly/";>
Only the five predefined named entities (&lt;, &gt;, &amp;, &quot;, and &apos;) are guaranteed to be supported. Others may be completely omitted or output literally. For example, if your XHTML document contains entities like &nbsp; or &rdquo;, that is what Safari will render. Literally. Opera instead chooses to omit the unknown entities, while the Mozilla family will recognise the entities and render them as in HTML if the document references a public identifier for which there is a mapping in the browser’s pseudo-DTD catalog and the document has not been declared standalone.
</blockquote>

Unfortunately it's a bit more than just changing entities.conf.
I am also reluctant to changing this, because I like named entities much better ... :-)
Does anyone know more about the possible impact of this alteration?
I did a bit of research and found statements that say using named entities is better, as well as statements that say the oppisite. :-(
Does anyone know more about that subject?

4. Documentation of missing things:
If these first three things are finished, there are still some things that most probably won't go into the core code of DokuWiki. I will write a wiki:tips:xhtml page on wiki.splitbrain.org then, including hints for content-type, doctype, targets, etc.


Anika

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