To convert a Web site from HTML to XHTML, you should be familiar with the XHTML syntax rules of the previous chapters. The following steps ...
To convert a Web site from HTML to XHTML, you should be familiar with the XHTML syntax rules of the previous chapters. The following steps were executed (in the order listed below):
A DOCTYPE Definition Was Added
The following DOCTYPE declaration was added as the first line of every page:<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/ xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> |
Tip: Your pages must have a DOCTYPE declaration if you want them to validate as correct XHTML.
Lowercase Tags And Attribute Names
Since XHTML is case-sensitive, and only accept lowercase tags and attributes, a general "find-and-replace" function was executed to replace all uppercase tags with lowercase tags. The same was done for attribute names.All Attribute Values Were Quoted
The XHTML 1.0 Recommendation states that all attribute values must be quoted, so every page in 1000sourcecodes.com was checked to see that attribute values were quoted.Empty Tags: <hr> , <br> and <img>
Empty tags are not allowed in XHTML. The <hr> and <br> tags should be replaced with <hr /> and <br />.A general "find-and-replace" function was executed to swap the tags.
We decided not to close the <img> tags with </img>, but with /> at the end of the tag. This was done manually.
