darkness @ 14:16:52
Just bugfixed the PSGML explicit fixed attribute
patch.
Attribute edit mode didn’t insert fixed attributes properly. I think
I should also take this time to mention that I haven’t tested this
patch very much, so it quite likely breaks down pretty easily.
Furthermore, if this screw up your computer, files, data, marriage, or
thread in space-time I’m totally not responsible. (Just ask anyone.)
Further furthermore, this is not at all an official patch, since I’m
sure the people that wrote PSGML could do a better job at this than
me; if there are any problems, please report them to me, not to the
PSGML folks.
darkness @ 04:38:59
Given the ugliness of last night’s entry, I thought I would get some
HTML action going today. I figured XHTML 1.0 Strict was looking nice
these days along with CSS level 2. I gathered all this from some
weird shit on
http://www.w3.org/
, so
it’s probably all wrong.
Anyway, I fire up Emacs, realize I could do some tweaking. I found a
nice enough
article
on using sgml-mode
in Emacs to edit XML, XHTML, etc. Followed
most of the steps. I make my first
<html>
element
and… what? No xmlns attribute, as required by the standard? It’s
because the DTD says the attribute is fixed (
#FIXED
), so
sgml-mode doesn’t think it needs to insert what is already a known
value. Bzzzt.
To make a long story short, I ended up patching
PSGML
(which gives
us sgml-mode, apparently) 1.2.5 to insert fixed attributes
selectively. You can apply this patch, then use something like this
in your .emacs:
(setq sgml-explicit-fixed-attribute-alist '(("html" . ("xmlns"))))
This tells my patched PSGML to insert the fixed value for the xmlns
attribute of the html element explicitly. There’s a bit more
documentation inside.
Comments/questions/etc. are welcomed. Please be kind, as this was
basically my second foray into Elisp ever. Without further adieu, my
explicit
fixed attribute patch
to PSGML 1.2.5.
Tomorrow maybe I’ll really get a chance to make this whole mess look
better.