With regard to the DOCTYPE, you could use a DOM script to re-write it, if you like (I'd be wary though - you might end up with more in-valid pages than not).
I would first start with whatever the CMS can output easily (least work), if that's HTML 4.0 then go with that - as this is still a completely valid DOCTYPE - you don't necessarily have to go with XHTML strict. HTML 4.01 STRICT might actually be a better/easier way to go anyway. Whatever DOCTYPE you use - just make sure it's a valid one, i.e. <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC"-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd";> Cheers Jeff Lowder Accessibility 1st Website: www.accessibility1st.com.au Blog: www.accessibility1st.com.au/journal/ -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of matt sawkill Sent: Thursday, 3 June 2004 12:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [WSG] lotus domino vs doctype Hi, I've been engaged to produce some standards compliant xhtml templates for a largish website for a legal firm. The programming and backend is being handled by another company - at the clients request they are using the 'Lotus Workplace Web Content Management' system (nee Aptrix) which is being integrated/built on top of Lotus Domino. It turns out that Domino can only generate the following html 4 doctype with no url - <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> Found some confirmation of this here: http://www.notestips.com/80256B3A007F2692/1/TAIO-5V5LQN http://www.notestips.com/80256b3a007f2692/1/taio-5v73sc Which puts ie into quirks mode, and doesn't let me write xthml strict either - obviously not a good thing when the site needs to be. Panic ensues. Anyone else come across this and have and advice/reliable hacks? Cheers, Matt ***************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ***************************************************** ***************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help *****************************************************
