[MarkLogic Dev General] Quirks of generating xhtml with xquery

Wed Aug 27 15:34:25 PDT 2008

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: general-bounces at developer.marklogic.com 
> [mailto:general-bounces at developer.marklogic.com] On Behalf Of 
> Stewart Shelline
> Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2008 3:30 PM
> To: General Mark Logic Developer Discussion
> Subject: RE: [MarkLogic Dev General] Quirks of generating 
> xhtml with xquery
> 
> One way to handle the textarea problem is to use a namespace 
> convention like this:
> 
> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
>         ...
>         <body xmlns="">
>                 ...
>                 <textarea name="desc" cols="40" rows="3" 
> id="form-control" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"></textarea>
> 
> As mentioned earlier today, the best way to get around 
> javascript problems is to put the javascript in a separate file.
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> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:general-bounces at developer.marklogic.com] On Behalf Of 
> Eric Palmitesta
> Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2008 3:54 PM
> To: ML Developer Mailing List
> Subject: [MarkLogic Dev General] Quirks of generating xhtml 
> with xquery
> 
> Aaron and I discussed this briefly at the training seminar, 
> but I'd like to get a sense of what other developers are 
> doing to get around the quirks of generating xhtml with 
> xquery (rather than a java servlet/jsp based website which 
> pulls records from MarkLogic via XDBC/XCC.
> 
> One such quirk: Childless elements with no internal nodes and 
> an explicit closing tag are automatically folded into 
> elements with no closing tag.  <div></div>, which is valid 
> xhtml, will become <div /> after being processed by MarkLogic 
> (breaks visual representation).  Some better examples are 
> <script ...></script> and <textarea></textarea>, which are 
> expected to contain no internal nodes in xhtml.
> 
> I've taken to writing things like
> 
> <script ... >{" "}</script>
> 
> or
> 
> <textarea>&nbsp;</textarea>
> 
> which successfully preserves the explicit closing tag, 
> keeping xhtml happy.  Is there a more elegant way to do this?
> 
> Are there other banana-peels I should watch out for when 
> generating xhtml with xquery?  Is creating an entire website 
> by generating xhtml with xquery generally frowned upon, or 
> accepted?  Admittedly, it seems less flexible than a <web 
> language>-based site, however the xdmp namespace seems to 
> provide sufficient functionality, and transforming xml data 
> into xhtml is incredibly easy with xquery.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Eric
> 
> 
> PS
> My vocabulary might be incorrect regarding words like 'tag' 
> and 'node', please correct me if necessary.
> 
> PPS
> I can see the archives at 
> http://xqzone.marklogic.com/pipermail/general/
> but are they searchable?  I have a feeling newcomers such as 
> myself will be prone to asking questions which have already 
> been discussed at length.
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