Re: extra tags in output

In a message dated 1/20/00 8:44:46 AM US Mountain Standard Time, Peter Levine 
wrote:

>  I'm using tidy as a last cleanup step after stripping those tags from an
>  HTML file. The idea is to get my 'almost' XML' file cleaned up by tidy
>  before presenting it to an  XML parser.

Inasmuch as I am retired and therefor have lots of "play time" on my hands, I 
decided to convert all of my existing web pages (78) from existing HTML 
4.0/4.01 to XHTML 1.0 (although I have retained copies in the HTML iterations 
in case I want to revert).  I did this for there seems to be no doubt that 
XHTML will soon be adopted as the defacto web authoring language in order to 
accommodate the various wireless/handheld device Browsers that will soon be 
forthcoming. The DTD's for XHTML 1.0 are now available for Validation on the 
W3C page (I provide a clickable hyperlink on the Validation page of my 
mini-site in my signature block).  Of course the current iteration of XHTML 
1.0 is at present only a proposed recommendation of W3C (the usual Caveats 
apply), but I believe the eventual form and substance will not differ too 
much - if the DTD's change somewhat, I will adjust my coding.

In any event, I have validated all of my pages as XHTML 1.0 in the W3C HTML 
validator, the W3C Cascading Style Sheet validator and the XML.com (RUWF - R 
U Well Formed?) validator (again, I have provided a hyperlink to this 
facility on the Validation page of my mini-site).

The point of all this is that I used TIDY to convert all of my web pages to 
XML/XHTML - solely - I just ran 'em through with nary a hitch! (Of course, I 
had previously validated the HTML code).  

So far I have checked my XHTML 1.0 pages in the following Browsers, where 
they perform/display as designed:

MS Internet Explorer ver 5.0
MS Internet Explorer ver 4.0, 4.x
Netscape Navigator 4.x
Opera 3.60
Web TV 2.0
Lynx 2.7, 2.8
Amaya 2.2
OBR (Optical Braille Recognition)
 
Thanks Dave Raggett!

James

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