[WEB4LIB] xhtml compliant WYSIWYG editor

Wed Jan 12 13:09:55 EST 2005

In my original incarnation of WebTribute 
(http://webtribute.sourceforge.net), I used Interakt's KTML:
http://www.interaktonline.com/Products/KTML/Overview/
which I think is pretty slick (and pretty cheap).  It can be set to XHTML.

I wound up bundling it with HTMLArea (http://htmlarea.com/) for 
licensing purposes, though.  V.3.0 "claims" to be XHTML compliant, 
although I cannot confirm that.

-Ross.

Leslie Hassett wrote:

>First, let me say I appreciate this list and all the expertise represented
>here.
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>I'm wondering if anyone knows of a "bug free" WYSIWYG editor that creates
>xhtml compliant code which could be integrated into a "homegrown" CMS. The
>CMS was created by our campus IT department and uses php. We are going thru
>a website redesign that is using stylesheets and xhtml 1.0 transitional (so
>we say!)  
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>I'm concerned that WYSIWYG editor currently in the CMS (purchased
>separately) allows non-compliant code, for example creating font tags, even
>placing those font tags inside a header tag.  It's not clear to me whether
>the CMS itself will be able to clean this up. If it doesn't, our documents
>will not be what we say they are in the declaration statement which is:  
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><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
>"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
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>I am a reference librarian on the outside of this development process,
>although I am one of the primary content editors and am one of the first
>users of the CMS.  I try to keep current on HTML/XHTML/XML issues, however,
>I still consider myself mostly a novice.  Normally, I only lurk on this list
>to listen to what the real experts discuss but I'd really like to suggest to
>our IT department an XHTML WYSIWYG editor to make sure our pages have
>compliant code.  Department secretaries and other staff who have no HTML
>knowledge will be using this to enter their pages in the CMS.
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>If anyone can help with this I'd appreciate it.  
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>Thank you.
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>Leslie Hassett, Reference Librarian
>lhassett at dwebb.llu.edu
>(909)558-4300 ext. 47513
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