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— 21 November 2005 —

Getting to Valid XHTML - Um, Help?

If my site has one or two minor validation errors, I usually don’t get too bent out of shape over it. But as of this writing I have 32 errors, all (I think) being driven by error number one:

Error Line 1 column 54: invalid formal public identifier “-//W3C/DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN”: no SPACE after public text class. <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C/DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN ”

The odd thing is, when I look at the code of this page, there is no space!

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C/DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN”

“http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd”>

<html lang=”en” xml:lang=”en” dir=”ltr”>

Can anyone help me out here? It’s probably something small I am missing.

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2 Responses to Getting to Valid XHTML - Um, Help?

Jeff Adams eloquently responded with:

Your missing a slash after W3C and before DTD there should be 2 forward slashes and you only have 1.

You have this:
!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C/DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN”

Should be this:
!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN”

21 November 2005 at 11:36
Matthew Oliphant eloquently responded with:

Doh. I knew it was something my eyes were glossing over. Trouble is, before the redesign my site validated. bah.

Thank you, Jeff. :)

21 November 2005 at 15:22