Blogging Roller: Ordinary user -> XHTML

Ordinary user -> XHTML

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?

Dave Johnson in Blogging • 🕒 07:06PM Feb 03, 2005

Tags: Blogging

Comments:

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 XStandard (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 09:21 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 Radeox 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 01:37 PM EST #