Ken Irwin <[log in to unmask]>
> Do catalogs even validate out-of-the-box? (I've never set up an OPAC
> before, I have no idea what "out-of-the-box" might actually look
> like.)

Testing the demos suggests that koha 3.2 only fails because of a
stupid mistake (missing a / on a <hr> when we declare as xhtml)
and koha 3.4 has a few extra errors that may arise from the recent
switch to template toolkit.

So validation is definitely achievable with Koha.

Hope that helps,
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