h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I've just been trying to reactivate my articles and some have tags which according to the GuideML are fine but the pages refuse to work. What's wrong - me or h2g2?

It's not just you- I've been having problems getting my page to work as well. Have to say, not particularly happy about the change to Guide ML, the non-support of javascript and the complete disappearance of images. I completely understand the reasoning behind it, but quite frankly, my page is down to the bare bones and is looking awful

They has never been a tag on h2g2 in GuideML - it's always been

Perhaps they've tightened up what's allowed to slip through - it used to be anything that wasn't disallowed was allowed through to the browser but it seems to be moving towards only letting through 'approved' tags (HTML or GuideML).

;^)#

My memory *may* be playing up here, but I seem to recall reading that ALL tags in GuideML must be in pairs and closed. The exception was that could be used as but both the paied open and close and the were OK.

CHawke

The paired BRs used to work, even though they were invalid GuideML.

;^)#

The reason you're having problems is that we're trying to be a bit clever. So many people would put into their pages that, when we started using a much stricter XSL processor (when we introduced Ripley) we tried to be a bit more forgiving. So, knowing that in HTML you never need to put , our intermediate parser assumes that any instances of is because the GuideML is broken (which it usually is) and automatically closes them.

This does means that you can't use the syntax, but must, instead you (which means exactly the same thing).

So that's the reason. Sorry it's confusing.

Cheers Bruce, Jim et al!
I also agree with archangel - things are looking a bit dull on site - although I also fully understand the reasoning behind it. It just stifles creativity a bit and I hate to think what JTG's page will look like with no images!