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

["D. D. Brierton" <darren@dzr-web.com>]

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
    ))

As you may be able to tell, though, my lisp is pretty crappy. The above
doesn't seem to work. It seems that 'xml-html-mode is not sufficient to
change the mode of the buffer. What am I doing wrong there?

Thanks for your help.

Best, Darren

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