[thelist] Two XHTML validity questions in a CF site
Bruce Heerssen
bheerssen at visualbridge.tv
Thu Jul 12 09:57:55 CDT 2001
Aaron Cole wrote:
> I've been desperately attempting to get my personal CF site to
> validate under the XHTML 1.0 Transitional DOCTYPE. Only two glitches
> remain.
>
> 1) I use the ParagraphFormat CF function which adds a <P> to posts
> every time the user enters two hard returns. Obviously, the lack of a
> closing tag isn't kosher. Are there any alternatives? Adding a <br
> /> instead would be great.
Maybe you could use "replace('your_string', chr(10), '<br />' 'All')"?
You could also use "chr(13)". You just need to replace the new line or
carriage return delimiter (or both if you want to be picky) with the <br
/> tag. Then wrap the entire contents in <p></p> tags.
>
> 2) The Validator is not happy with the variables that I need to pass
> in some of my hrefs. Ideas to get around this?
I suspect the rule for XHTML is the same as for HTML, in this case. An
ampersand in a URI (link) will throw an error because it siginifies an
html entity. For valid HTML, you need to replace all ampersands with
it's HTML entity (&). Then the document should validate if there are
no other errors.
HTH,
Bruce
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