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Posted by Andy Dingley on 09/14/06 22:47
Runnin' on Empty wrote:
> The Database is maintained by a combo CMS and Cart Admin written in
> PHP.
>
> It includes a Multiple Listings XML feed from a third party provider that
> allows site users to view property descriptions by agent.
>
> Also. well you get the picture, I guarantee that this "website" will not
> validate.
Why? There is _no_ reason why this website needn't validate, even with
the embedded XML and with serving it in HTML as text/html.
It's a "web" site. To make it work it must either _be_ valid "web
stuff", or it must be presented through the browser by complex
manglings until it's approximately valid enough for the browser to make
sense of it. If it's not a web site, then the web browser just can't
handle it -- you have to be either close, or automatically convertable
to close.
The closer you start, the less trouble this process generates.
The XML can be replaced with some XML, accessed through AJAX on
start-up and probably some XSLT. All valid, but it requires JavaScript.
Then again, I imagine your original site relied on JavaScript too, else
why send XML? If it's going to be non-JavaScript, then it's also going
to be static pages with nothing dynamic between HTTP requests, so you
can just transform the XML to static, valid HTML on the server and get
the same results.
Why do you think it must still be invalid ?
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