Convert to XHTML Dialog

The Convert to XHTML dialog is available from the Commands menu (main window).  Press OK to converts all HTML files in the FAR file list to XHTML format.

Tag elements and attribute names are converted to lowercase and all open tags are closed. Syntax problems that cannot be fixed automatically are logged to the output log file so they can be fixed manually later.

The command does not replace a good validation tool, but it does save you time migrating from HTML to XHTML.

Convert Options:

• OK to Modify Files (uncheck to report only) - Files are not modified when unchecked. Useful if you simply want to scan for problems such as tags with no matching end tag.
• XML Declaration - Add <?xml version="1.0" encoding="%encoding%"?> to the start of each file. This statement is recommended for XHTML but can be omitted if the file is Unicode encoded and has a DocType statement. If you don't we force this declaration (otherwise MS Help 3 can fail to render this correctly).
• XHTML DocType - Select the type of XHTML to convert to. This mostly effects header information, and the type of errors and warnings logged.

The log file is written to the root directory of the file list. The log is displayed automatically when the conversion completes.