not exactly a mac question= transitional and strict xhtml

RainDog

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Mon Jan-14-08 02:00 PM
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not exactly a mac question= transitional and strict xhtml

I cannot get a page to validate at w3. I have to validate in both, but I can't figure out how to fix one thing, esp. (This is for a workshop and I have to do specific things...I can't change the thing here, even tho I hate it. Cannot use css.

in xhtml transitional, the following does not validate:

<ol type="a">
<li>Books</li>
<ol type="i">
<li>Printing</li>
<li>Bookbinding</li>
<li>Blind Stamp</li>
<li>Coptic Binding</li>
<li>Sewn Gatherings</li>
</ol>
</ol>

I have to have a nested ordered list that uses lower cases. w3 tells me this is not allowed. it is within a table in the body of the doc.

this is inside of a cell in a table that is nested in another table. I've looked back and I have closed all tags (also null ones like br and img.) other items are nested properly. I am stuck and this HAS TO validate.

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alfredo

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Mon Jan-14-08 10:43 PM
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1. I ran it through Markup cleaner, can you see a difference?

Edited on Mon Jan-14-08 11:30 PM by alfredo

The first snippet was put in NVU then run through markup cleaner. It made a few changes of the </li> tag. I know very little about hand coding, just happened to have NVU to work with. I just uploaded it to: http://homepage.mac.com/alfredo_tomato/test1.html and ran that URL through the validator and it validated as 4.01 Transitional.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
http-equiv="content-type">
<title>test</title>
</head>
<body>
<ol type="a">
<li>Books
<ol type="i">
<li>Printing</li>
<li>Bookbinding</li>
<li>Blind Stamp</li>
<li>Coptic Binding</li>
<li>Sewn Gatherings</li>
</ol>
</li>
</ol>
</body>
</html>

Here's your orginal.

<ol type="a">
<li>Books</li>
<ol type="i">
<li>Printing</li>
<li>Bookbinding</li>
<li>Blind Stamp</li>
<li>Coptic Binding</li>
<li>Sewn Gatherings</li>
</ol>
</ol>

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RainDog

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Tue Jan-15-08 12:40 AM
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2. thank you!

I forgot about leaving the first list tag open.

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alfredo

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Tue Jan-15-08 12:52 AM
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3. It seemed like the close list tag should have gone there, but that would

not have been nested properly.

Have you ever tried using NVU?
http://www.nvu.com/

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RainDog

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Tue Jan-15-08 02:01 AM
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4. no

but I will.

I never use a tidy or whatever. except now I do.... the one at w3... but it messed up my page?!? I only started using a text editor this year. before I just wrote directly onto the terminal page.

anyway, now it validates!!!!!!! and that's all I care about with that for now.

I have to go through html strict, xhtml transitional, then xhtml strict to work in xhtml strict for all css. I don't work with this everyday, but I do from time to time. actually, I love to make web pages. need to spiff up my stylin.'

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!

:hi:

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RainDog

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Tue Jan-15-08 02:03 AM
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5. oh...

I can't use anything like Dreamweaver to write the pages (as in the Nvu link) -- this has to be my work.

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alfredo

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Tue Jan-15-08 11:50 AM
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6. That's good. Hand coding builds character. It reminds me of

watching my dad pull his own teeth. Do keep NVU for later when you start building on your own. It's a good free tool.

Here's a very good text editor for HTML and other modes. It hasn't been updated for a long time but it works.

http://mimikaki.net/en/index.html It used to be called MMKedit. It's the poor man's BBEdit.

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