XHTML strict archiving

Hi guys.

While I’m trying to figure out modx, I’m trying to to figure out how to deploy it as a blogging platform.

I’ve started looking at the documentation for ditto.
I noticed this detail in the list of features, on the page http://ditto.modxcms.com/index/about.html

"xHTML strict archives with templating via Reflect"

I’m not quiet sure what this means. But I’d like to know if this will interefere, or create obstacles against my aim of creating sites that validate as html40.1 or html5 .

Can anyone enlighten me in that regard ?

No. You can set up your templates to validate any way you please. A site template is the HTML skeleton that the [*content*], menus using [[Wayfinder]] and any other dynamic content that will change from page to page goes into.

Ditto and a number of other snippet applications use their own mini-templates to format their output, and again you can make them in any manner you choose; usually chunks or sometimes files. All they do is plug the dynamic data into their mini tpl where you put the [+placeholders+].

Some snippets, usually "quick and dirty" snippets made to do a specific small job, do actually generate the HTML to contain their output, and in the case of these you would have to go through the snippet code and change the HTML it uses to what you prefer.