Re: Suggestions? Better filetype sniffing -- XHTML vs. HTML

[Kin Cho <ignore-this-prefixkin@techie.com>]

"D. D. Brierton" <darren@dzr-web.com> writes:

> On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 08:47:18 -0800, Kin Cho wrote:
> 
> > (add-hook 'find-file-hooks 'my-find-file-hooks t)
> > 
> > (defun my-find-file-hooks ()
> >   (when (save-excursion (search-forward-regexp "\?xml\\|XHTML" 80 t))
> >     ;; do whatever you need to do
> >     ))
> 
> Thanks for this suggestion, Kin. Following on from your suggestion, I
> guess that rather than adding a hook to find-file-hooks, I guess I could
> add it to 'sgml-html-mode-hook instead, so .php or .html files etc
> initially open in sgml-html-mode, but then if a <?xml or //W3C//DTD XHTML
> string was found it would then switch into xml-html-mode. So I guess, that
> would go something like:
> 
> (add-hook 'sgml-html-mode-hook 'check-for-xhtml-hook t)
> 
> (defun check-for-xhtml-hook ()
>   (when (save-excursion (search-forward-regexp "<[?]xml\\|//W3C//DTD XHTML" 80 t))
>     'xml-html-mode ;; looks like this line isn't right
>     ))

Change 'xml-html-mode to (xml-html-mode).

If you know C, 'xml-html-mode is like taking the address of a
function.

-kin