pageoneresults - 8:11 pm on Jan 23, 2009 (gmt 0)

I find that 99% of all errors are the same basic couple of dozen problems repeated ad infinitum.

Ain't that the truth!

I've found on that first validation trip that a find and replace for the many common errors will usually bring a page "very close" to validating. Anytime I see that damn "Missing ALT Attribute" I cringe. And the unescaped ampersands is the bane of every Webmaster.

Then you have the missing quotes on attributes. Improper nesting of elements. Mish mash of HTML and XHTML which has grown exponentially over the past few years. Multiple IDs. Wrong DTDs based on page content, etc.

Give me a page with hundreds of errors, I'll have it spiffied up in no time. What you do with it afterwards is out of my control. ;)