Re: [Groff] grohtml vs. HTML Tidy

[Keith Marshall]

On Monday 08 December 2003 12:54 am, Alejandro Lopez-Valencia wrote:
> On Sunday, December 07, 2003 6:42 PM [GMT-5],
>
> Ralph Corderoy <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Hi Alejandro,
> >
> >>    .put_number(width)
> >> -   .put_string("%\" align=center>")
> >> +   .put_string("%\" align=\"center\">")
> >>    .nl();
> >
> > It may upset Tidy, but AIUI there is no need to quote values
> > containing striaghtforward characters, so `align=center' is
>
> perfectly
>
> > valid.  I do that when typing HTML simply to avoid the `noise' of
> > redundant quotes. I see the point though of trying to make Tidy
>
> happy.
>
>
> Ahh yes.. That one day Gaius will make grothml spit out clean XHTML
> 1.1 strict... :-)

... or, to express it more definitively, those quotes are certainly *not* 
redundant, if you ever want to migrate from bare HTML to *valid* XHTML.

Best regards,
Keith.