Flailing at xhtml

After reading this: Thought experiment [dive into mark] and playing around a bit with the W3C's Amaya, I attempted to make the blog bits of this site (the journal, comment blog, and this section) more XHTML compliant.

All of the markup I control is XHTML.

The problem is (not was) with the markup generated by Movable Type.

I thought that I could craft clean code using encode_xml="1" on the various <$MTxxxx...$> tags.

Bzzt.

Seems to work selectively, and if MT is already generating the content as XML then it encodes it in a massive <!CDATA section. This might be ok for "good" XHTML browsers, but MSIE ended up displaying some stuff and hiding other bits.

While my one motto is that I won't downgrade the site or dance around with CSS and Javascript hacks to customize to specific browsers, I'm also not going to consciously muck up the site for specific browsers as well.

So...this site may or may not be XHTML compliant depending on the mood of MT and whether I consciously create XML compliant markup in individual posts.

Feh.

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