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dgatwood · 02-21-2013, 02:08 AM

Try running it through a validator. It will probably "just work". Most software that outputs HTML does so using an XML-compatible form, or very nearly so. The likely exceptions can usually be fixed with a simple regular expression or other substitution, e.g.

Code:

cat file.html | sed 's/<hr>/<hr \/>/g'  > newfile.html

or, in English, replace <hr> with <hr />. That's just about the only difference you're likely to run into. That and possibly the need to add </link> closing tags if the files include any CSS or </meta> tags if the files include any meta tags.

Ah. According to Pandoc's documentation, its html output mode is actually xhtml 1.0. Weird. So just add -t html and you should be good.

02-21-2013, 02:08 AM	#2
dgatwood Curmudgeon Posts: 629 Karma: 1623086 Join Date: Jan 2012 Device: iPad, iPhone, Nook Simple Touch	Try running it through a validator. It will probably "just work". Most software that outputs HTML does so using an XML-compatible form, or very nearly so. The likely exceptions can usually be fixed with a simple regular expression or other substitution, e.g. Code: cat file.html \| sed 's/<hr>/<hr \/>/g' > newfile.html or, in English, replace <hr> with <hr />. That's just about the only difference you're likely to run into. That and possibly the need to add </link> closing tags if the files include any CSS or </meta> tags if the files include any meta tags. Ah. According to Pandoc's documentation, its html output mode is actually xhtml 1.0. Weird. So just add -t html and you should be good. Last edited by dgatwood; 02-21-2013 at 02:10 AM.