Tidy gives non-standard HTML

Question

I use Tidy to clean and make HTML files compliant to HTML/XHTML. However, output contains non-standard attributes values like :

<table id='abc'>...

or

<input type='button' />

(look at the single quotes). How can I configure Tidy to give strict XHTML output? Thank you in advance!

Sorry, I don't know the answer to the question, however I thought I'd leave this comment to let you know that using a single-quote is perfectly ok - it is well formed XHTML/XML to use either type of quote. As long as it is consistant (always ' or ") I see no problem with it. — Mark Embling, Jul 01 '09 at 09:47
Tidy is written in C and I need to write code in C++ to config, I don't use command line tool. — Viet, Jul 01 '09 at 09:57

score 7 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 01 '09 at 09:48

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This is indeed a valid XHTML. You can put either double quotes or single quotes for attribute values.

answered Jul 01 '09 at 09:48

rahul

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Double quotes are prettier though. – Matthew Scharley Jul 01 '09 at 09:51
Its because we are familiar with that. – rahul Jul 01 '09 at 09:58
Well, double quotes are much better. – Viet Jul 01 '09 at 10:02
@Viet visually or? Since there is little difference practically. – Ólafur Waage Jul 01 '09 at 10:09
Double quotes are not at all better. – Quentin Jul 01 '09 at 10:09
Visually. And if you can see, it's good to have HTML & XHTML files to look alike XML files where attributes are quoted by double quotes. – Viet Jul 01 '09 at 10:12
You can use single quotes in any XML, not just XHTML. As for visually ... that depends on your font and personal preferences. – Quentin Jul 01 '09 at 10:14

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