Oh… and unfortunately, it is *not* valid XHTML 1.1 — it has nothing to do with the wordpress template, but the banner ad technology being used is a bit dated, and uses formatting commands within html tags. Not a lot I can do about it.
make it xhmtl-compliant. it’s not that difficult.
I can’t. The ad code Keenspot uses is generated site-wide, and in order for the pages to be compliant that code would have to be compliant. The code is not.
As I am one of the few people who care if it’s compliant or not, they’re not going to change the way the code works just to make me happy.
The templates themselves are xhtml compliant. If the code that was inserted into my site for the banner ads and the keen bar were not present, the pages themselves would also be xhtml compliant. I’m required to run those, however, so that’s that.
Actually, I take that back: even if the ad code weren’t in there, it’d still fail 1.1 validation. I need to figure out why.
The validator I ran listed a litany of problems with all of the lists on my site. Apparently the way I set up WordPress to handle links isn’t building proper xhtml. Note to self: peruse the Codex more carefully regarding links.
There are a lot of messages telling me I’m using a paragraph element in places where it is not permitted, but the things it’s calling out are generated by WordPress, and hadn’t been a problem when I was checking it during the development of the site. So I think there’s something else in the page that’s throwing it off.
Hmph. This is going to be a long weekend.
OK, here’s a potential problem.
One of my links lists shows up this way when you reveal source:
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<ul>
<li><a href='http://ubersoft.net' title='Standing on the Necks of Giants.'>Help Desk</a>
<li><a href='http://ubersoft.net/kpanic' title='Life on the Other End of the Stick'>Kernel Panic</a>
</ul>
—–
Obviously the problem here is that there are no < /li > tags closing out the links. But this is the WordPress sql I’m using:
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<ul>
<?php get_links(5, '<li>', '', '</li>', 0, 'name', 0, 0, -1, 0); ?>
</ul>
—–
So I’m actually specifying that the link item should be closed. And I think I’m parsing that correctly. So why isn’t it showing up?
EDIT: This should probably be asked in a different forum. Apologies.
