Kevin's Weblog

I just finished some changes to make and keep this blog XHTML compliant. Fixing up the original validation failures was pretty easy, but illuminated some shortcomings in the way I'm writing my entries. Most notably, using the blox plugin just causes trouble. Really, I wanted to just make my entries valid XHTML from the start, with the help of Emacs PSGML mode.

The only real hitch in doing this is dealing with the title line. Right now I'm handling this with a real simple plugin that I whipped up that lets me wrap the title in any dummy markup, which it then strips out. So, now my entries are valid XHTML fragments, which is something PSGML mode deals with just a little bit of configuration.

I'll probably spend a little time to clean up, comment, and generalize the plugin, then contribute it to the plugin registry. Version 2, if it ever happens, will try to actually validate each entry as they are generated.