I've noticed a lot of sites, SO included, use XHTML as their mark-up language and then fail to adhere to the spec. Just browsing the source for SO there are missing closing tags for paragraphs, invalid elements, etc. So should tools (and developers) use the XHTML doctype if they are going to produce invalid mark up? And should browsers ...
I learned Swing back in the day but now I've moved to Python and want to make some apps with GUIs. I haven't had the time to learn a new GUI API so I've been using Jython, but I would prefer to use CPython. It would be great if I can have one simple markup that allows me to switch GUI libraries. It would be even better if I can use the...
My HTML is all marked up, ready to make it rain CSS. The problem is that I have to go back and find out what all my id and class names are so I can get started. What I need is a tool that parses my HTML and spits out a stylesheet with all the possible elements ready to be styled (maybe even with some defaults). Does such a tool exist?...
I'm using markdown to edit this question right now. In some wikis I used wiki markup. Are they the same thing? Are they related? Please explain. If I want to implement one or the other in a web project (like stackoverflow) what do I need to use? ...
What are people's thoughts on the pros and cons of Markdown versus ReStructuredText. Both seem like very usable and well-developed markup languages -- when might one want to use one over the other? ...
I'm trying to write a blog post which includes a code segment inside a tag. The code segment includes a generic type and uses <> to define that type. This is what the segment looks like: <pre> PrimeCalc calc = new PrimeCalc(); Func<int, int> del = calc.GetNextPrime; </pre> The resulting HTML removes the <> and ends up like th...
Caveat: I'm relatively new to coding as well as TextMate, so apologies if there is an obvious answer I'm missing here. I do a lot of HTML/CSS markup, there are certain patterns that I use a lot, for example, forms, navigation menus etc. What I would like is a way to store those patterns and insert them quickly when I need them. Is the...
I'm building a website that requires very basic markup capabilities. I can't use any 3rd party plugins, so I just need a simple way to convert markup to HTML. I might have a total of 3 tags that I'll allow. What is the best way to convert "==Heading=="" to "< h2>Heading< / h2>", or "--bold--" to "< b> bold < /b>"? Can this be done si...
As stated in the title, i'm looking for an XML schema (XSD-file) for the Glade markup language? Wikipedia states that Glade is a schema based markup language (list of schemas at wikipedia). I tried to search the web, wikipedia and the glade website,but i couldn't find an XSD for Glade. Thx, Juve ...
Why would one choose YAML over XML or any other formats? ...
for example, right now I have a roll-my-own solution that uses data files that include blocks like: PlayerCharacter Fighter Hitpoints 25 Strength 10 StartPosition (0, 0, 0) Art Model BigBuffGuy Footprint LargeFootprint end InventoryItem Sword InventoryItem Shield InventoryItem HealthPotion end human editable (...
A while ago I came across a Python library that formats regular text to HTML similar to Markdown, reStructuredText and Textile, just that it had no syntax at all. It detected indentatations, quotes, links and newlines/paragraphs only. Unfortunately I lost the name of the library and was unable to Google it. Anyone any ideas? Edit: re...
At a previous place where I worked a colleague figured out how to configure MediaWiki so that, for example, a string like #12345 in the wiki markup could be expanded into a hypertext link to ticket 12345 in the ticket system. I would like to do something similar in TWiki. I have not yet figured out how, though. So, if I do, I'll try a...
Is there a way to comment out markup in an .ASPX page so that it isnt delivered to the client? I have tried the standard comments but this just gets delivered as a comment and doesn't prevent the control from rendering. Any suggestions would help ...
Is there a Python module for converting wiki markup to other languages (e.g. HTML)? A similar question was asked here, What's the easiest way to convert wiki markup to html, but no Python modules are mentioned. Just curious. :) Cheers. ...
How do I limit the types of HTML that a user can input into a textbox? I'm running a small forum using some custom software that I'm beta testing, but I need to know how to limit the HTML input. Any suggestions? ...
Leaving aside the question of whether you should serve single or multiple stylesheets, assuming you're sending just one, what do you think of this as a basic structure? /* Structure */ Any template layout stuff should be put into here, so header, footer, body etc. /* Structure End */ /* Common Components*/ Repeated elements, such as...
I want in an application with a simple text input, enriched with some marks to include formatting or semantic labeling. I want the syntax as easy as possible and I want to include self-defined labels. Example: [bold]Stackoverflow[/bold] is a [tag]good[/tag] resource for programmers. Tables would be needed too. HTML/XML and LaTeX are m...
When you are developing a web-based application and you want to allow richly formatted text from the user you have to make a choice about how to allow that input. Many different markup languages have been created because it is arguably more difficult to sanitize HTML. What are the advantages and disadvantages of the various different m...
I want to get myself into programming some serious GUI based applications, but when I look at things like Swing/SWT from Java, I can't help but HATE programming a GUI interface by creating "widget" objects and populating them and calling methods on them. I think GUI design should be done in a separate text-based file in some markup fo...