[Haskell-cafe] Problem with xhtml 1.5.1.1: html tags are split

On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 11:38 AM, Gwern Branwen wrote:

On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 3:00 AM, Bjorn Bringert wrote:

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I support finding a new maintainer.

Alright; as the old maintainer, I guess it falls on you to advertise on -cafe and libraries.

Has a request gone out yet? I didn't notice anything (maybe it got lost in all the recent haskell.org downtime), and the current Hackage page of xhtml is still listing Bjorn. Anyway, John MacFarlane has found a workaround which he's implemented in HEAD Pandoc (http://code.google.com/p/pandoc/issues/detail?id=134); from http://groups.google.com/group/pandoc-discuss/browse_frm/thread/915586b5c5e2... :

Many people have wanted pandoc to produce "more normal" HTML output, without nesting, but with line breaks between block elements (where they aren't semantically significant). Something like this:

<ul> <li>a <a href="/foo">link</a></li> <li>another list item</li> </ul>

I've found that I can get this kind of output, even using Text.XHtml's renderer, by modifying the writer to insert raw newlines after block elements, and using 'showHtmlFragment' rather than 'prettyHtmlFragment'.

This may be useful for other people to know. (There are quite a few users of xhtml: http://bifunctor.homelinux.net/~roel/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/revdeps/xhtml-3... ) -- gwern http://www.gwern.net