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Fri Dec 16 05:33:03 PST 2011

On 14/12/2011 10:12, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 12/12/11 7:46 PM, Stewart Gordon wrote:
>> On 06/12/2011 05:44, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> http://d-p-l.org
>>>
>>> Andrei
>>
>> Why does it have an HTML 4.01 doctype but then go on to use XHTML syntax???
>>
>> Stewart.
>
> I wouldn't know. What needs to be done?

Are you saying someone else put that doctype there behind your back?  Or that you found it 
on a lot of webpages and just copied it without any clue of what it means?

Since what you've obviously learned is a mishmash of old-fashioned HTML, modern HTML and 
XHTML, the first step would be to learn the differences between them.  This will get you 
started:
http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_xhtml.asp

My preference nowadays is to use XHTML Strict

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
  "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

though I may still use other doctypes while maintaining sites that have been around for a 
long time, like XHTML Transitional

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
  "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

The main difference between Strict and Transitional is that Transitional includes legacy 
presentational elements and attributes whereas Strict doesn't.  The proper way to do 
things nowadays is to write the content and structure in (X)HTML and use CSS for the 
presentation.

But whatever I try to validate it as, there are errors.

A good plan would be to change it to XHTML 1.0 Transitional and fix the handful of 
validation errors that still show up.  I can help you to do this.  Once you've got your 
head around these, you could consider migrating to XHTML 1.0 Strict.

Stewart.