I've "inherited" a site that was developed circa 1999/2000 and it's pretty buggy at this point. My goal is to redo the site in XHTML Strict and so I'm validating my pages as I go. Here is the code I've got (datasource name changed to protect the embarassed!):
CODE
<cfquery datasource="database" name="qryNext3Events">
SELECT TOP 3 EventName, EventDesc, StartDate FROM EventsCalendar WHERE (((EventsCalendar.StartDate)>#Now()#));
</cfquery>
<cfif qryNext3Events.recordcount gt 0>
<cfoutput query="qryNext3Events">
<br>
#EventName# #dateformat(StartDate,'d-mmm-yyyy')#<!--<br>
#EventDesc# --><br>
</cfoutput>
</cfif>
Now this does work, and here is the page DOCTYPE info:
CODE
<!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">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
etc. Now for my question: when I validate the page containing this cfquery it does validate, but gives a warning about a greater than sign being found between tags and suggests using the XHTML for greater than which, if I do, breaks the code. The greater than sign in question is the one on line 2 above in the "SELECT" statement right after (((EventsCalendar.StartDate) and right before #Now()#)); in the cfml code above.
So what's the warning all about? I thought the greater than sign was a valid operator in the syntax between the cfml tags that shouldn't throw a warning when validating the xhtml. Am I wrong on that, or is the cfquery not done correctly? The page does validate, so it isn't crucial, but I thought your code syntax wasn't checked the same as the XHTML. Any insight into something obvious I'm missing here?
23 May, 2008 - 04:42 PM
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