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Old 07-07-2008, 05:07 PM
 
Steel Steel is offline
 

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Default Tools to facilitate W3C Validation for HTML pages

Hello,

I have searched and studied the posts that seemed to be relevant, and gained some knowledge (as always). As the industry evolves, it seems that it renders old code obsolete.

I have HTML pages that have been created using FrontPage 2002. I am integrating many of these pages into X-Cart, or perhaps X-Cart into these pages. A test at the W3C Markup Validation Service site ( http://validator.w3.org/ ) yields many errors.

What are the best software tools to use to generate HTML pages? Dreamweaver? Will Dreamweaver facilitate correction of existing code, or is it better to start from scratch and compare the newly generated code?

Is the HTML Tidy cleanup generated code useable? It seems that it generates many reference lines near the head of the page. Is there a better option? Will UltraEdit (http://www.ultraedit.com/products/ultraedit/ultraedit_tour.html) help perform this task?

What is the best way to approach the code cleanup process?

Is XHTML, or some other code better to integrate with X-Cart?

Is there a best doctype to use?

I figure I might as well consider all my options before I finish the task. Any and all suggestions are welcome.

Thanks.
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