Download Web Developer Toolbar for firefox for local validating.
http://www.chrispederick.com/work/firefox/webdeveloper/
Then you can see a tool under "Tools" called "Validate Local HTML" that should help you out a bit.
Hope this helps
Joey
Charles Slack wrote:
LOCAL XHTML TESTING - HOW TO DO IT?
Hi,
I'm an experienced real time software engineer getting involved in
Web design. I have done a lot of reading, both books and web pages
and, after a lot of heart searching, have arrived at the following
strategy for developing web pages:
1. Develop and test the site initially using an XHTML 1.0 strict
DOCTYPE until I have the site working to my satisfaction. This will
be done locally on my PC (I will not upload the site). I hope that
this will set me on the right road to producing well formed XHTML
code which will be ready when more browsers (IE) support XHTML. I
intend to follow the W3C compatibility rules (Annex C) to make sure
that my XHTML is backwards compatible with HTML.
2. I realise that there are difficulties presenting XHTML to some
browsers (IE in particular) and that I will end up with the browser
treating my code as HTML in "quirks" mode. For that reason I intend
to change to HTML 4.01 strict DOCTYPE before going live and carrying
out validation and final testing.
That's the background. The question is what is the best way of
testing and validating my XHTML code locally? I am not very clear how
browsers, validators/linters, Tidy etc manage doctypes when looking
at code. How can I be sure that they are treating the code as XHTML 1.0 strict and not HTML?
Can anyone point me at any interesting sites or offer any suggestions?
Thanks,
Charlie
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