Major template inconsistencies making life a nightmare

[Marci]

In an attempt to get our site to validate in any way shape or form, I've been slowly redesigning it from the ground up based on stock Actinic themes (at www.hantai.co.uk/acatalog).

Whilst doing so, I'm coming across some radical inconsistencies that are just plain annoying... for instance, the quoted code is from Act_ShoppingCartXML.html

<td align=right colspan="NETQUOTEVAR:PRICECOLSPAN"><b><span class="actxsmall">NETQUOTEVAR:ADJUSTMENTCAPTION</span></b></td>
					<td align=right bgcolor="NETQUOTEVAR:CHECKOUTBG"><span class="actxsmall">NETQUOTEVAR:ADJUSTMENT</span></td>
					NETQUOTEDEL:REMOVE
					<td align="CENTER" rowspan="NETQUOTEVAR:REMOVEROWSPAN">&nbsp;</td>
					NETQUOTEDEL:REMOVE

in there, you can see td align=right - where are the quotation marks?
further down we see td align="center" with quotations, so why aren't they there for other <td> tags? All the way thru every template I'm finding occurences such as this... the most common being <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0> - no quotation marks whatsoever, then further down in the same template, the exact same but with quotation marks.

These are all stock untouched Actinic templates (other than uppercase to lowercase conversion)... and I'm coming across this no matter which templates I look at.

Why the inconsistencies?? Laziness?

Are any updated template sets available to download for v6 that don't have this problem, thus saving me hours of work?

[jont]

They are a pain for sure - and carried over in some form or other into v7.

I took the easy route - made a full copy of the site before starting - loaded it into Dreamweaver and undertook a find and replace as needed ... that found the vast majority but you will also need to trawl through the text ID's to find others

[Marci]

Been adopting that approach - am sure glad Dreamweaver has a "convert tags to lowercase" function... gonna have to butcher some of the perl too by the looksa things... been using it for years and never realised how much of a mess it was til now. Oh for a php / MySQLable version...