HTML got changes after uploading into BaseX - BaseX-Talk - mailman.uni-konstanz.de

31 Jul 2012


      Hi All,
         Sorry for flooding the basex mailing list :( .
We have this very simple HTML for some testing purposes. And we upload 
it through basexgui (HTML file type).
<html>
     <body>
         <h1>Hello world!</h1>
         <ul>
             <li>service</li>
             <li>advancedassociationquery</li>
             <ul>
                 <li>service2</li>
                 <li>advancedassociationquery2</li>
             </ul>
             </li>
     </body>
</html>
but when serve it to the browser we get back the following html response 
where the list is flattened.
<html>
    <body>
     <ul>
       <li>service</li>
       <li>advancedassociationquery</li>
     </ul>
     <ul>
       <li>service2</li>
       <li>advancedassociationquery2</li>
     </ul>
   </body>
</html>
After validating we've seen that, according to W3, the STRICT HTML 
compliant form is the following:
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
    <head><title>A title</title></head>
    <body>
       <ul>
     <li>service</li>
         <li>advancedassociationquery</li>
         <li>
            <ul>
          <li>service2</li>
              <li>advancedassociationquery2</li>
        </ul>
     </li>
   </body>
</html>
But even after uploading this STRICT HTML through basexgui we got back 
the flattened version. Our need is to just store and render the HTML 
with out any further processing. Also the HTML is generated using a tool.
The thing is that the STRICT HTML file is served correctly when uploaded 
through the REST interface of BaseX (Firefox Poster with PUT method) 
whereas the incorrect file is served the wrong way(flattened) even if it 
uploaded through the REST interface.
This sums up to an inconsistent behavior.
Thanks and Regards,
Marco & Seenivasan