Comments on: generating valid xhtml http://malvasiabianca.org/archives/2005/10/generating-valid-xhtml/ Tue, 22 May 2012 01:20:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: John Cowan http://malvasiabianca.org/archives/2005/10/generating-valid-xhtml/comment-page-1/#comment-4001 John Cowan Sun, 23 Oct 2005 05:32:40 +0000 /?p=170#comment-4001 For stand-alone validation, use any validating XML parser after snarfing a copy of the appropriate XHTML DTD from W3C. (Don't just point to it; parsers don't usually cache, and you'll hammer w3.org.) You might also want to try TagSoup (http://www.tagsoup.info) instead of Tidy for transforming HTML into well-formed XML. It's fast and it never, never gives up or loops. (Toot, toot!) For stand-alone validation, use any validating XML parser after snarfing a copy of the appropriate XHTML DTD from W3C. (Don’t just point to it; parsers don’t usually cache, and you’ll hammer w3.org.)

You might also want to try TagSoup (http://www.tagsoup.info) instead of Tidy for transforming HTML into well-formed XML. It’s fast and it never, never gives up or loops. (Toot, toot!)

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