doc/bugs/pages_under_templates_are_invalid.mdwn



Pages under templates/ are invalid (in fact, not only invalid, but also not well-formed) xhtml pages.
This problem is especially serious when you change extension from .html to
.xhtml in ikiwiki.setup and use Firefox. Since Firefox will display a error
message only for not well-formed application/xhtml+xml pages.
It seems that HTML::Template also support <!--Variable--> syntax instead
of <Variable>.  Chaning to this syntax will solve this problem, I guess.
Even if changed to <!-- TMPL_VAR --> style, the problem may still exist if the template contains if else block.
Maybe just encode all < and > when compling pages within the templates folder will solve this problem.

I never noticed this bug, since it only happens if the htmlscrubber is
disabled. --[[Joey]]