Re: HTML export meta tag

[Scott Randby <srandby@gmail.com>]

On 5/29/23 16:37, Timothy wrote:
> Hi Scott,
> 
>> Just to give some support to my request, the HTML standard
>> (<https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/syntax.html#start-tags>) says this:
>> “Then, if the element is one of the void elements, or if the element is a
>> foreign element, then there may be a single U+002F SOLIDUS character (/), which
>> on foreign elements marks the start tag as self-closing. On void elements, it
>> does not mark the start tag as self-closing but instead is unnecessary and has
>> no effect of any kind. For such void elements, it should be used only with
>> caution — especially since, if directly preceded by an unquoted attribute value,
>> it becomes part of the attribute value rather than being discarded by the
>> parser.”
> 
> The things is the ox-html exporter currently tries to (mostly) support XHTML,
> which as I understand requires the self-closing slash.
> 
> I think what’s really needed is an HTML export implementation that can more
> easily support different “modes” of export, but somebody needs to work on that
> 🙃.

Okay, but when I try to validate my page as XHTML, I get numerous errors that would be inconvenient to fix especially since I'm only interested in obtaining valid HTML. What I think I'll do is to edit the org-html--build-meta-entry function in my ox-html.el file to eliminate the trailing slash. I'll just have to remember to do that every time I upgrade Org.

Scott