Not preserving XHTML

[Saltallica]

I'm attempting to use this to inline styles in an XSL template. In order for the XSLT processor to operate correctly, it requires strict XHTML with proper closing tags. For example:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/>

Becomes

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">

Without the closing tag. This is not legal XML, therefore fails processing.

Is there a way to output as XHTML with closing tags everywhere?

[jonkemp]

No, not currently. It would require significant changes to the codebase.

[yn5]

@jonkemp Could you point out roughly what would have to change to prevent this library from invalidates our XML so we can come up with a pull request?

[jonkemp]

@yn5 well, this plugin doesn't actually handle transforming the output. It goes through another module called inline-css.

https://github.com/jonkemp/inline-css

inline-css uses cheerio to do the html parsing, and cheerio uses another module called htmlparser2. If the issue is the XML being mangled then I would look there. htmlparser2 says it can handle XML.

https://github.com/cheeriojs/cheerio
https://github.com/fb55/htmlparser2/

[BroFox86]

I use gulp-htmltidy for emails to convert HTML to XHTML again with this doctype option:

export function build() {
  return src("temp/*.html")
    .pipe(plugins.inlineCss())
    .pipe(plugins.htmltidy({
      doctype: "Transitional",
      hideComments: false,
      indent: false
    }))
    .pipe(plugins.htmlBeautify())
    .pipe(dest("dist/"));
}