Converting from HTML to XHTML

Aaron1988 · #1 (**permalink**) Dec 4th, 2006, 14:47

Hey every oen i am writing this article on How to Convert your HTML documents to XHTML so here we go and i hope you will understand it these are the steps i would go through if i wanted to convert form HTML to XHTML

Converted all the tags to lowercase (I used Home Sites Sweeper to do this)
You will need Macromedia Homesite for this

Open the HTML file you would like to "sweep".

Click on the "Tools" Menu, scroll down to "CodeSweeper" and choose "Default CodeSweeper".

Click on "Run CodeSweeper", and your code will be converted to the default indenting and formatting.

If you like the way this formatting looks, then click on the "Don't ask me again" check box.

If you don't like how it looks, follow the instructions on the How to Create a New CodeSweeper template.

TIPS

Use the HomeSite CodeSweepers to keep your HTML and XHTML standard and easy to read.
Standardized CodeSweepers in a Web development team keeps the XHTML standard and reliable.

Put double quotes around all attributes (again code sweeper)
Added a DOCTYPE and a HTML Namespace

These are some of the different DOCTYPES you can use

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
HTML 2.0
This isn't used much any longer, but if you want to indicate that your document is very minimal, you might use this DTD. <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN">
HTML 3.2
HTML 3.2 is still used fairly often. It includes tables, applets, superscripts, and subscripts.
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"

So, when you're writing your HTML or XHTML, be sure to specify the DTD. Otherwise, you might be surprised at how your pages display in newer browsers.

This a Namespace Declaration to peope, who use it

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<x xmlns:edi='http://ecommerce.org/schema'>

</x>

Searched for all the img tags and added alt text and a trailing slash to close the element
Searched for all the link tags and added a trailing slash
Searched for all li and option tags and added the closing tags
Removed all font tags and other non-XHTML tags
When I thought it was ready I sent it through the W3C Validator. I got about 600 errors, but I just went through them one at a time and corrected them.

But for more help just Go to http://webdesign.about.com/About_Web_Design_HTML.htm

cause thats how i got help on some of the stuff when i wanted to learn well still learning now the best part i am good at is HTML the worst bit of Coding i am not to sure on as yet lol is XHTML but i will pick it up in the near future cause i will get as much help as i can to improve my skills

Once I had valid XHTML, I needed to convert the page into logical blocks so that they could be moved to their correct locations on the page. This resulted in a page with "semantic layout", and it is essentially all the page elements listed one by one on the page. It's not very pretty, because all the layout and decorative tags have been removed.

Thanx
Aaron

JacobHaug · #2 (**permalink**) Dec 4th, 2006, 15:09

Thanks!!

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