[plt-scheme] Suggestion about formlets and (X)HTML

From: Jay McCarthy (jay.mccarthy at gmail.com)
Date: Mon Jan 5 16:09:04 EST 2009

Good point! I will look into it.

Jay

On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 1:35 PM, Thomas Chust <chust at web.de> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> when one uses send/formlet to render a web form and send it to the
> browser, the result is always invalid (X)HTML, since a form element
> should not appear as the root of a document. Thus this procedure
> encourages bad programming practice.
>
> I think it would be nice if send/formlet allowed for some way to wrap
> the form element it creates in a proper (X)HTML document. Alternatively
> the procedure could simply be deprecated since embed-formlet can be used
> for the same job without the problems.
>
> cu,
> Thomas
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