JSF and XHTML Transitional validation

Question

We're finishing our first public-facing JSF project and our final hurdle is to make sure our pages are XHTML compliant (we're a government department and we have to fall in line); we've chosen XHTML 1.0 Transitional.
We have two problems:
1. When we use <h:commandLink ...> the inserted javascript is not escaped and produces the validation errors using the W3C validator:
Warning Line 87 column 121: character "<" is the first character of a delimiter but occurred as data.
...p;if (adp != null) {for (var i = 0;i < adp.length;i++) {f.removeChild(adp)
Warning Line 87 column 270: character "<" is the first character of a delimiter but occurred as data.
...p.split(',');for (var i = 0,ii = 0;i < ps.length;i++,ii++) {var p = document.
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Is this a known problem, and is there a solution? A last resort could be to use a ServletFilter to insert <[CDATA[ ]]> into the page, around the javascript.
2. Multiple forms produce multiple hidden input tags with the same ID:
Error Line 106 column 54: ID "javax.faces.ViewState" already defined.
...en" name="javax.faces.ViewState" id="javax.faces.ViewState" value="j_id114:j_As far as I can see we're going to have to re-design our pages to use just one form (we have two navigation menus each with their own form, then one form for the page.)
Unless there is another solution?
We're using Sun JSF RI 1.2_03-b09-FCS (with facelets), but observe the same behaviour with 1.2_04.
Many thanks for any help,
Andy.

Answer 1

I have encountered the same issue. Hard-coded "javax.faces.ViewState" is a design bug in my view. subviews make absolutely no sense when view state id is hard-coded. It has to be auto-generated just as it's values are, even though that may require iteration thru the params. One way to deal w/ this to avoid iteration thru params in JSF impl, is to append subview id "javax.faces.ViewState" hidden field, have each subview look up accordingly. There is no other way to have valid XHTML.
If there's a work-around, please share.
Thanks,
Reshat.