> Simon St. Laurent wrote:
>
> Cleaning up the top pages of
> > my site took about 10 minutes. Other pages will require more work - yes, I
> > plan to go back and fix everything except perhaps the 100+ XSchema fragments.
>
> It took me WEEKS just to clean up the (pretty horrid) HTML on my little
> site -- but now it is at least HTML 4.0 valid. I feel this is an
> important first step to first get everyone to at least be well-formed
> HTML, and THEN start pushing for xml transition.
>
> The XML transition itself will be more easily accomplished from a web of
> well-formed HTML anyway. In fact, if I have my dithers, much of it will
> be automatable.
I'd strongly recommend this HTML-sanitizer:
http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett/tidy
It automatically closes tags and other things to make your HTML *much*
more XML-friendly. Another switch will remove "font" etc tags and
automatically replace them with CSS!
- j