Not sure about the __VIEWSTATE error other than the first character
of an ID should be alphanumeric, I thought.
also Tidy said: "The character encoding specified in the HTTP header
(utf-8) is different from the value in the <meta> element
(iso-8859-1). I will use the value from the HTTP header (utf-8) for
this validation."
which may also be part of the problem.
Often tidy may point to something as an error which is really an
error elsewhere conflicting with he code in the alleged forst error,
if that makes sense...
your answer may be here:
http://dotnetting.wordpress.com/2007/01/30/aspnets-attempt-at-valid-
xhtml/
ASP and .NET has too many instances of bad code generation and no-one
is taking MS to task for this.
Joe
On Sep 28 2007, at 19:53, Tim Offenstein wrote:
I have a page I want to validate. W3C says it's valid XHTML
Transitional but Tidy complains saying, "line 96 column 1 -
Warning: <input> ID "__VIEWSTATE" uses XML ID syntax." The page is
www.provost.uiuc.edu and because it has a XHTML DOCTYPE, I would
think XML syntax should be just fine.
I am advising on this page so I don't have access to the files to
change anything but wanted to research the complaint before
reporting it. Any ideas what TIDY's problem is saying.
I thought preceding an ID with the double underscore might be the
issue but would like a more technical explanation, particularly
since W3C says it's valid.
Thanks in advance.
-Tim
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