Core hacking tip for XHTML strict compliance

[MattyR]

Just wanted to give folks a heads up if you're trying to go the mile for strict compliance - in the rendering output, you don't really have to get rid of all the tables. You will, however, have to do some core hacking to remove extra rendered XHTML output. For example, any td "width", div "aligns", and especially image "border", "name", and "align". The fix to the image attributes can be done by editing one line in includes/joomla.php. In my editor, it was line 4961, in the function ImageCheck for class mosAdminMenus.

The line that needs to be edited looks like this:

$image = '';


For compliance, change it to


$image = '';


Next, edit function botVoting in mosvote.php in your mambots/content directory to


function botVoting( &$row, &$params, $page=0 ) {
global $Itemid, $task;

$id = $row->id;
$option = 'com_content';

$html = '';
if ($params->get( 'rating' ) && !$params->get( 'popup' )){
$html .= '';
$html .= '';
$img = '';

// look for images in template if available
$starImageOn = mosAdminMenus::ImageCheck( 'rating_star.png', '/images/M_images/' );
$starImageOff = mosAdminMenus::ImageCheck( 'rating_star_blank.png', '/images/M_images/' );

for ($i=0; $i rating; $i++) {
$img .= $starImageOn;
}
for ($i=$row->rating; $i rating_count );
$url = @$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
$url = ampReplace( $url );

if (!$params->get( 'intro_only' ) && $task != "blogsection") {
$html .= '';
$html .= _VOTE_POOR;
$html .= '';
$html .= '';
$html .= '';
$html .= '';
$html .= '';
$html .= _VOTE_BEST;
$html .= ' ';
$html .= '';
$html .= '';
$html .= '';
$html .= '';
$html .= '';
$html .= '';
$html .= '';
}
$html .= '';
$html .= '';
}
return $html;
}


To fix the width attributes, you'll have to do a lot of editing to content.html.php from your components/com_content/ directory. Also, remove the width reference in line 1151 in content.php, same folder.


You'll also need to change the footer generator code (i put the license /copyright in statically) to remove a div "align."

Best of luck!
~MattyR

[joo-joo-mla]

Hi,

this argoment is VERY IMPORTANT FOR MY WORK.

Thanx for these strict tips. Can i ask you other core hacking?


THANX A LOT 

[MattyR]

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