IMHO opinion decide what your going to code for and use it. I'm going to make the assumption that you have access to his database, or at least the parts your working with. Make some dummy sql statements or go into the database itself and see how things are stored. Is there actual html in there, if so what kind?, or is it a bunch of \n's (\r's?) that are stripped and converted over (or both!). Can you use functions in whatever your using to convert items to standards? (i.e. htmlentites() in php to convert to &...;). If you are using a programing language create a 100% valid template/dummy page, then go through and strip it all to fill in what your database requirements are going to be. While it may not be valid afterwards, if/when standard info is being put into the database, the pages will start becoming more standard as time goes by.
Not really a CSS question or answer I know. For the webtech.tstc.edu site I've been helping create we started with a 100% xhtml/css layout, then stripped out info and added in the php code for the database. Since we knew we were going to go standareds we knew the database would be as well. After all the pages were marked "final" we went back and redid browser/validtion checks making sure it still was valid. ron zisman wrote: > still a newbie. so, a newbie query. I'm beginning a new site and had > thought of using a xhtml strict declaration... or transitional, but, as > the site is for a small realtor, it will need to import data from the > local MLS (listing service). i'm assuming (don't know why) that the > data will be formatted as html 4.0. > what's a guy to do? does this imported data demand consideration of the > doc type? thanks. ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7 information -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
