Make Front Page XHTML Compatible i.e. <br /> tags allowed & DTD's

FrontPage sorely needs better XHTML compatibility. I am an XHTML compliant
coder and noticed that FP will not allow me to have tags like <br> and <img>
include a closing slash such as <br /> or <img src="file.gif" /> at least
this is something I cannot find. Also what about the DocType for XHTML?

I will be forced to continue with DreamWeaver until this is available or
pointed out somewhere that it does exist.

I'm hoping someone can show me a way to accomplish this.

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Stefan
Mon Jul 18 07:41:56 CDT 2005

FP 2003 (code view) allows you to reformat pages to XML (right click in code view)
- it will not generate XML, just reformat to after a page is done

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"BWT" <BWT@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:FA48B887-C7E9-4CFF-B5EE-D6B795D2EEB0@microsoft.com...
| FrontPage sorely needs better XHTML compatibility. I am an XHTML compliant
| coder and noticed that FP will not allow me to have tags like <br> and <img>
| include a closing slash such as <br /> or <img src="file.gif" /> at least
| this is something I cannot find. Also what about the DocType for XHTML?
|
| I will be forced to continue with DreamWeaver until this is available or
| pointed out somewhere that it does exist.
|
| I'm hoping someone can show me a way to accomplish this.
|
| ----------------
| This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the
| suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I
| Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this
| link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then
| click "I Agree" in the message pane.
|
|
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Justin
Mon Aug 15 20:02:47 CDT 2005

This is still not adequate.

The produced file is not XHTML compliant -- for example, it is missing the
namespace and DOCTYPE declarations. This is significant, since the nbsp
entity will be undeclared and the file will fail to be parsed by a standard
XML parser.

Also, even after applying the XML formatting rules, changing something that
is seemingly benign (such as changing the language setting in the Page
properties) will create a meta tag that doesn't have a matching closing tag.
This means that after every little change the user is forced to open the code
view and reformat the file.

On the code formatting options page (Tools -> Page Options -> Code
Formatting), I can set most of the tags to have matching closing tags, but
there is no feature that will allow me to set that options globally -- also,
META and LINK tags are not supported.

Thanx
"Stefan B Rusynko" wrote:

> FP 2003 (code view) allows you to reformat pages to XML (right click in code view)
> - it will not generate XML, just reformat to after a page is done
>
> --
> [snip]

Stefan
Tue Aug 16 03:45:01 CDT 2005

Never said it generated XHTML compliant pages
- you can always add the namespace and DOCTYPE declarations w/ a code snippet

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"Justin Kim" <Justin Kim@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:0EAE0609-BC90-4DB7-A2D8-258933B609C0@microsoft.com...
| This is still not adequate.
|
| The produced file is not XHTML compliant -- for example, it is missing the
| namespace and DOCTYPE declarations. This is significant, since the nbsp
| entity will be undeclared and the file will fail to be parsed by a standard
| XML parser.
|
| Also, even after applying the XML formatting rules, changing something that
| is seemingly benign (such as changing the language setting in the Page
| properties) will create a meta tag that doesn't have a matching closing tag.
| This means that after every little change the user is forced to open the code
| view and reformat the file.
|
| On the code formatting options page (Tools -> Page Options -> Code
| Formatting), I can set most of the tags to have matching closing tags, but
| there is no feature that will allow me to set that options globally -- also,
| META and LINK tags are not supported.
|
| Thanx
| "Stefan B Rusynko" wrote:
|
| > FP 2003 (code view) allows you to reformat pages to XML (right click in code view)
| > - it will not generate XML, just reformat to after a page is done
| >
| > --
| > [snip]

ine8181
Tue Aug 16 17:19:27 CDT 2005

I realise this. :) My post was a feature request/suggestion to
Microsoft, for their next version of frontpage.

I was pointing out the inadequacy of the current approach.

Thanx

Justin

Terry
Tue Aug 16 22:16:44 CDT 2005

On 16 Aug 2005 15:19:27 -0700, ine8181@gmail.com wrote:

>I realise this. :) My post was a feature request/suggestion to
>Microsoft, for their next version of frontpage.
>
>I was pointing out the inadequacy of the current approach.
>
>Thanx
>
>Justin

I "second" the request. Let's have some valid XHTML out of FrontPage.
Enough of these "cutesy" functions like MSN newsfeeds and photo
galleries that have to be recreated any time you add a picture.

Developers, please focus on getting the HTML code (and CSS2.1 code,
too, of course) to meet standards.

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