The final `</div>` in [`recentchanges.tmpl`][tmpl] gets wrapped in a
`<p>` tag for some reason, resulting in the following invalid XHTML at
the end of the [[RecentChanges]] page

    <p></div></p>

> I'll bet this is fixed if you use the markdown 1.2 prerelease, which has
> a much less buggy html parser. (Ah, I see below that was the case.) 
> --[[Joey]]

Also, there is a problem with the `<img>` tags generated by the smiley
plugin which end up wrapped in a `<pre>` tag in the inline diff output.
`<img>` tags is not allowed within a `<pre>` block.  Maybe the smiley
plugin should be disabled on [[RecentChanges]]?

> See [[Smileys_in_the_block_code]] --[[Joey]]

See the [validator output][validate] for more details.

 [tmpl]: http://git.ikiwiki.info/?p=ikiwiki;a=blob_plain;f=templates/recentchanges.tmpl;hb=HEAD
 [validate]: http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://ikiwiki.info/recentchanges/

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I'll add this here since it's related.  I also noticed that the meta tags for
redirected pages need to be closed in order to be valid XHTML:

    <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="10; URL=../ikiwiki/pagespec/">

I'm noticing these problems because I'm serving ikiwiki-generated
content as `application/xhtml+xml` (as opposed to `text/html`) in order
to include inline MathML.  Any invalid XHTML causes Firefox to halt all
processing and throw an error. &mdash;[Jason Blevins](http://jblevins.org/)

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Here is a simple patch for the refresh problem.  I haven't figured out
what's causing the recentchanges bug yet.

--[[JasonBlevins]]

> Thanks, applied that patch. --[[Joey]]

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It turns out that the invalid XHTML on the recent changes page is due to
a bug in Markdown.  I was using the packaged version of markdown in
Ubuntu (Gutsy and markdown 1.0.1-6).  Everything is fine
after installing the most recent version of Text::Markdown from CPAN.

Note that the above patch for the redirect tag is still applicable and
the smiley issue remains open. --[[JasonBlevins]]

[[tag patch]]