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Ordinary user -> XHTML

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Alan Williamson: I have attempted to use online editors (fckeditor/htmlArea) but they do not enforce valid XHTML and the results they produce can sometimes be a right old mess of tags  (try editing the source of a post-fckeditor saved text).  Ironically one of the common suggestions that have come from my users is their desire to use a WIKI type of input.  They are comfortable with this and it does solve a lot of UI problems. However I am finding it difficult to find tools that will actually take WIKI Markup and transform it to XHTML.
Do the closed source blog/wiki tools do a better job at going from ordinary user to XHTML?


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Not sure about Wikis, the syntax can be rather esoteric - always reminds me of spell casting in Dungeon Master. When I coded up www.wordmap.com the CEO wanted the ability to enter and modify the content himself, but he isn't a techie and I didn't want him ruining my XHTML compliance so I rolled in a wiki-alike edit function via <a href="http://xstandard.com/">XStandard</a> (lite) where every page was navigatable via the site taxonomy.. all he has to then was fill in the page content - and I dont get bugged for every minor site change. Yeah Yeah.. I know, ActiveX component!! but'll its a much richer experience (esp for newbies) and works for IE/Moz.

Posted by Richard Osbaldeston on February 04, 2005 at 06:21 AM EST #

Another thought cant you stick a filter onto posts to pass things through something like a JTidy to produce your canonical XHTML? What will <a href="http://radeox.org/">Radeox</a> buy you? "No Granny you need to put a hole in both ends.. and then suck!"

Posted by Richard Osbaldeston on February 04, 2005 at 10:37 AM EST #

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