[WEB4LIB] Re: Moving from HTML4.01 to XHTML transitional

[Thomas Dowling]

Alnisa Allgood wrote:

>At 9:08 AM -0700 9/23/04, Drew, Bill wrote:
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>>I want to thank everyone for their able assistance.  I am making
>>significant progress on my project. Most of the errors are such things
>>as <li> not followed by </li> or <br> instead of <br />.  These errors
>>are very easy to fix.  Some of the stranger ones are the long hyphen and
>>other escaped characters occasionally not recognized in XHTML 1.0.  I
>>just changed the hyphens to other punctuation that did not require
>>escape characters.  I am slowly making my way through the top level
>>pages down to lower levels.  It was not as hard as I thought it would
>>be.  It is time consuming but productive work.
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>&#8212;  works as an em dash  (-) for me.
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So does "&mdash;", which I can actualy remember when I need it.  :-)

Bill, does this mean that your copy of Dreamweaver uses &#150; and 
&#151; for en- and em-dashes?  If so, shame on them.  I believe 
HTML-Tidy automates that clean-up, though.


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Thomas Dowling
tdowling at ohiolink.edu