Re: [PATCH] Use   instead of   for XHTML compliance

[Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>]

On Wed, 15 April 2009, Todd Zullinger wrote:

> From: Ricky Zhou <ricky@fedoraproject.org>
> ---
> 
> This was noticed by the Fedora Infrastructure folks.  The pages
> rendered fine in Firefox, but caused an XML error when run through tor
> and privoxy together.  Part of this problem description may belong in
> the commit message -- I was hesitant to add it, as I didn't read all
> of the IRC log where the problem was noticed and debugged.

Wouldn't it be a better solution to add DTD with HTML entities if/when
gitweb serves XHTML 1.0 together application/xhtml+xml mimetype, instead
of unconditionally using what is I think worse solution? Especially that
error is I think quite rare situation and/or bug in browser...

I also don't think that the change -nbsp => -subspaces is necessary;
it causes large code churn for nothing, and name is IMVHO worse.
It is about nonbreakable and non-compactable space.

> 
>  gitweb/gitweb.perl |   40 ++++++++++++++++++++--------------------
>  1 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/gitweb/gitweb.perl b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
> index 33ef190..55b56f7 100755
> --- a/gitweb/gitweb.perl
> +++ b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
> @@ -1042,8 +1042,8 @@ sub esc_html ($;%) {
>  
>  	$str = to_utf8($str);
>  	$str = $cgi->escapeHTML($str);
> -	if ($opts{'-nbsp'}) {
> -		$str =~ s/ /&nbsp;/g;
> +	if ($opts{'-subspaces'}) {
> +		$str =~ s/ /&#160;/g;
>  	}
>  	$str =~ s|([[:cntrl:]])|(($1 ne "\t") ? quot_cec($1) : $1)|eg;
>  	return $str;

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland