Chapter 9. Validating Mobile Markup

Markup validation is the practice of machine-checking that a Web document complies with syntax rules and adheres to the dialect of the document format in use. As you develop your Mobile Web application, you can use validation to check whether your markup and style sheet documents are well-formed and valid. During the testing cycle, you should thoroughly validate every Mobile Web document in your project to ensure strict adherence to Web and Mobile Web standards.

You first learned about the merits of valid and well-formed mobile markup in Chapter 3. This chapter provides you with tools to validate your markup, diagnose validation errors, and ensure that, at least syntactically, your markup is appropriate for display ...

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