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http://www.durangodaves.com/ddfotoup/index.phphi i got it all to validate other than these three items and i checked the original and its the same..
any idea how to get it to validate with these three items..
Validation Output: 3 Errors
Line 2, Column 73: character "{" is not allowed in the value of attribute "dir"
…g/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en" dir="{LANG_DIR}">
It is possible that you violated the naming convention for this attribute. For example, id and name attributes must begin with a letter, not a digit.
Line 2, Column 83: value of attribute "dir" cannot be "{LANG_DIR}"; must be one of "ltr", "rtl"
…:lang="en" lang="en" dir="{LANG_DIR}">
The value of the attribute is defined to be one of a list of possible values but in the document it contained something that is not allowed for that type of attribute. For instance, the “selected” attribute must be either minimized as “selected” or spelled out in full as “selected="selected"”; a value like “selected="true"” is not allowed.
Line 7, Column 1: character data is not allowed here
{META}
You have used character data somewhere it is not permitted to appear. Mistakes that can cause this error include:
•putting text directly in the body of the document without wrapping it in a container element (such as a <p>aragraph</p>), or
•forgetting to quote an attribute value (where characters such as "%" and "/" are common, but cannot appear without surrounding quotes), or
•using XHTML-style self-closing tags (such as <meta ... />) in HTML 4.01 or earlier. To fix, remove the extra slash ('/') character. For more information about the reasons for this, see Empty elements in SGML, HTML, XML, and XHTML.