Skip Menu |

This queue is for tickets about the CPAN-WWW-Testers CPAN distribution.

Report information
The Basics
Id: 39498
Status: resolved
Priority: 0/
Queue: CPAN-WWW-Testers

People
Owner: Nobody in particular
Requestors: ANDK [...] cpan.org
Cc:
AdminCc:

Bug Information
Severity: Wishlist
Broken in: (no value)
Fixed in: (no value)



Subject: Switch to XHTML
The HTML on the cpantesters pages was always good enough to do some data mining from them with HTML::Parser. This has now changed, I don't know why. But in general, if HTML::Parser guesses a single bit wrong, the whole tree is a mess. My module CPAN::Testers::ParseReport had now to be switched over to YAML due to this. If cpantesters could switch to XHTML such breakage would be less likely and in the case that it happens can be easier diagnosed and fixed. As far as I remember, one can write xhtml without declaring it, so without having to do it all in one step. An informal agreement that on tries to write XHTML would do. Then we could move asymptotically to XHTML.
Fixed in 0.35. All pages should now pass XHTML Transitional spec. Will look to aspire to pass Strict at some point in the future.