On Sun, 2004-08-22 at 14:44, Ray Mullan wrote:
> I am scripting a website in XHTML 1.1 Transitional
There is no such language.
> , this is the DTD:
>
> <><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1 Transitional//EN"
> "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd";>
That DTD is the XHTML 1.0 Transitional DTD. Try picking a matching
public identifier:
http://www.w3.org/QA/2002/04/valid-dtd-list.html
> However I cannot validate any page where lists are nested
Yes you can. You haven't shown any markup, but I bet you have tried to
place a list as a child element of another list (which is not allowed in
any version of (X)HTML). Only list items may be children of a list (but
a list may also be a child of a list item).
> -- in spite of carefully adhering to the CSS2 recommendations.
The CSS recommendations have no impact on what markup is valid.
> I should point out that
> the page looks fine in Internet Explorer 6.0, Netscape 7, Opera 7 and
> the latest version of Mozilla.
User agents often attempt to perform error correction to cope with
invalid documents. Depending on this is a bad idea.
> After browsing the web, it would seem
> that I am not the only web developer who has this problem -- many are of
> the opinion that there is a glich in XHTML 1.1 since there appears to be
> no way to nest lists according to CSS specifications and create valid
> pages at the same time. Is this the case?
No.
> What are the implications for future interoperability if I ignore the
> error messages?
I wouldn't like to try to predict the error correction capabilities of
future user agents. I'd also remain concerned about current user agents
which you have not tested.
--
David Dorward <http://blog.dorward.me.uk/> <http://dorward.me.uk/>
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