ASP.NET 2.0 and XHTML Strict

**bsw2112** · Mar 26th, 2007, 05:17 PM

Hello

I have two problems (I hope they are not serious)
Say I have the following code that needs to validate to XHTML 1.0 Strict

Code:

<%@ Page Language="VB" AutoEventWireup="false" CodeFile="Default.aspx.vb" Inherits="_Default" %>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
  "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en">

<head>
	<!-- TITLE BEGINS --><title>Example</title>
	<!-- TITLE ENDS -->

	<!-- META STARTS-->
	<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
	<link rel="schema.dc" href="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" />
	<link rel="schema.dcterms" href="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" />
	<meta name="dc.title" content="Example"/>

	<!-- META ENDS -->

</head>
<body>
    <form id="form1" runat="server">
    <div>
    Hello World!!!
    </div>
    </form>
</body>
</html>

I though all I would need to do is add this to the web.config so that it would validate to XHTML Strict

Code:

<xhtmlConformance mode="Strict" />

but when I tried to validate with the W3C validator I got the message that the page tentatively passed validation and that overridding needed to take place.

W3C validator told there was a Character Encoding Override in effect!

and

The detected character encoding "iso-8859-1" has been suppressed and "utf-8" used instead.

Is it possible to validate to XHTML strict using iso-8859-1?

Another thing is how do I get around the __viewstate that starts with the underscore? I know that ASP.NET 2.0 puts a div around it so that a block element holds the input (W3C validator is happy) but CSE Validator tells me that an underscore cannot start the value of an id or name attribute

Is there a work around for this and also when I take the server output from the view source and copy it to an html extension file, it validates. Is this a problem with the aspx extension?

I am not allowed to change the encoding.

Thanks in advance

bsw

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