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PancakeX is frustrated with Greymatter:

“The “new”, “XHTML-compliant” version of Greymatter I “upgraded” to turns out to be just like the old one - empty elements like img and br are not closed appropriately, tags are most often in UPPERCASE, et cetera.”

I converted my site to XHTML over the weekend, and I can attest to these problems. I had to change several different bits of the default template to change tags to lowercase. I had to change br and img tags to include an extra slash at the end for XHTML compatibility. I even had to dig into the source code in gm-library.cgi and change a line of the source that generates the calendar, because it was hardcoded to insert capital TR tags instead of lowercase.

The end result? My site now validates as XHTML Strict. I should write up the details as a HOWTO. It’s not impossible, but it’s not built-in either. At least Greymatter is open source; otherwise it wouldn’t be possible at all.

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