NanoBlogger 3.1 XHTML1.1 Compliance Patch

I use NanoBlogger 3.1 as my content management system, and I like it very much. Just one thing bugged me: By default it creates XHTML1.0-compliant code, when it could very easily generate 1.1-compliant code. I did a little poking around and fixed the following issues:

• The name attribute is deprecated in XHTML1.1; id serves the same purpose.
• align=”center” is deprecated in favor of the CSS style=”text-align: center;”
• Added the XHTML1.1 doctype declaration, leading xml info header, and language identifier for the html tag
• More than one
  had id=”menu” so I changed them from IDs to classes and added .menu to the #menu CSS styles
• You can’t have a
  outside of a block-level element, or something like that. My solution was to remove the
  ‘s at the end of the templates, but I suppose you could also just throw it in a div. In that case you’d also have to replace clear=”all” with style=”clear: both;”, as the clear attribute is also deprecated in favor of CSS.

I submitted this patch to the developer quite a while ago, but no new versions have come out recently so I thought I’d publish it. You can download it if you like. Apply it by first backing up your nanoblogger folder, then cd-ing into it and running patch -p1 .