Bug: make default pages xhtml compliant

DEVELOP BRANCH ONLY

in a few topics we have html which is not xhtml, like <TABLE>, not closed <br> and things like these. while we cannot enforce the user to write correct xhtml data in the topics, we can take care that twiki is distributed with maximum compliance to the standard. this regards topics, templates and possibly css files.

Test case

use http://validator.w3.org on any standard page.

Environment

-- MarioFrasca - 16 Mar 2005

Impact and Available Solutions

Follow up

--- branches/DEVELOP/templates/Main/view.pattern.tmpl   (revision 3817)
+++ branches/DEVELOP/templates/Main/view.pattern.tmpl   (working copy)
@@ -30,12 +30,10 @@
 
 
 %TMPL:DEF{"content"}%<div class="twikiHidden"><hr /></div><a name="Content"> </a><div class="twikiHidden">Start of topic | <a href="#Actions">Skip to actions</a><hr /></div>
-<TABLE WIDTH="100%"><TR><TD>%TMPL:P{"form"}%</TD>
-</TR></TABLE>
+<table width="100%"><tr><td>%TMPL:P{"form"}%</td>
+</tr></table>
 <div class="twikiTopic">
 
 %TEXT%
--- branches/DEVELOP/data/TWiki/WebHome.txt   (revision 3817)
+++ branches/DEVELOP/data/TWiki/WebHome.txt   (working copy)
@@ -108,5 +108,5 @@
    * TWiki is developed as Free Software under the [[GnuGeneralPublicLicense][GNU/GPL]]
    * This site is running TWiki version *%WIKIVERSION%*, Plugin API version *%PLUGINVERSION{}%*
    * Get the current version from [[http://TWiki.org/download.html][TWiki.org Downloads]] <br />
-     <img src="%PUBURL%/%TWIKIWEB%/TWikiLogos/horzTWikiPowered.gif">
+     <img src="%PUBURL%/%TWIKIWEB%/TWikiLogos/horzTWikiPowered.gif" alt="" />
 

-- MarioFrasca - 16 Mar 2005

just a couple of small corrections.

Sending        DEVELOP/data/TWiki/MetaDataRendering.txt
Sending        DEVELOP/data/TWiki/TWikiMetaData.txt
Sending        DEVELOP/data/TWiki/WebHome.txt
Transmitting file data ...
Committed revision 3853.

-- MarioFrasca - 23 Mar 2005

DevelopBranch now uses CGI to generate HTML in all but a small number of cases. Therefore from a tag perspective, the code cannot generate invalid XHTML. However it is still capable of creating structurally incorrect XHTML, because if you write this:

<table>

<tr>
</tr>
</table>

Not saying we should fix this, just pointing it out. The best we can hope to do is to make sure that a TWiki topic with no embedded HTML is always compliant.

-- CrawfordCurrie - 24 Mar 2005

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