validation of xhtml

[ruthann]

Hi,

I am redoing my very large site...and I am doing all my templates from scratch. Since this is such a big task I want revision to be good for a long time. To that end I am making the site xhtml compliant - the most current standard from w3c.

I am having problems with the pages inside the store. Shopsite doesn't seem to write code that is w3c compliant for xhtml transitional. I have come up with 3 instances so far.

1. <meta name="generator" content="ShopSite Pro 9.0.3.2 (data - test-template)"> is placed at the top of each page. I have no problem with SS advertising itself on my site but the statement needs the " />" close.

2. graphics - again, the close tag is generated for html instead of xhtml and it cascades a bunch of errors.

3. the options feature seems to generate 2 kinds of problems...it leaves off the quotation marks around values and it uses the html close instead of the xhtml one.

My pages seem to display correctly but it is still putting out hundreds of errors. I am concerned about this for the future - who knows what the browser developers will do - and it also makes it impossible to find errors in my page that I can correct.

I know that I can solve this by using html but that is a step backward. I want this site to last a long time. Is there anything that I can do?

Thanks for your help!

Ruth

[Jim]

ShopSite outputs html not xhtml for most tags so it may be difficult to have a page validate to xhtml.

[ruthann]

Given that xhtml is the latest protocol, are there any plans to update shopsite so that it will produce code that will validate?