| Those who are not familiar restructured text may | | | | frustrating from a user point of view, but it still |
| initially bemoan it's lack of power and flexibility when | | | | doesn't bring your site any closer to being beautifully |
| compared to XHTML, but as often the case in life, | | | | or correctly formatted. Just not illegally so.And don't |
| initial appearances can be deceiving.Although the use | | | | get me started on tables...Restructured text on the |
| of CSS for styling and presentation is "best practice" | | | | other hand forces compliance to XHTML best |
| in XHTML, it is not yet mandatory, which allows | | | | practise precisely because it is not XHTML. By |
| anyone with knowledge of such "deprecated" tags as | | | | allowing users to work in an environment much closer |
| "align=center" or "font", to illegally wreck havoc with | | | | to the simple text notepad which almost everybody |
| your beautiful CMS-based site.Outside of a | | | | is familiar with, and without a single (more often than |
| mandatory 2 month course in basic XHTML and CSS, | | | | not forgotten) tag in sight, the simplicity of ReST |
| one solution which desperate webmasters have | | | | leaves the site contributor the concentrate on |
| often deployed is to force site editors and | | | | content, as God would have intended it, and takes |
| contributors to work with WYSIWYG editors | | | | care of the parsing of said content into strict XHTML |
| configured to strip out any and all illegal tags. Not only | | | | for them.But that's not all. |
| is this a somewhat draconian solution, and immensely | | | | |