OT: W3C validation of webpages

[David Bateman]

I'm trying to fix the validation of the function references as well for
the octave-forge pages. Does anyone know how to write

<dl>
<dt><table width="100%">
<tr><td align="left"><b><a href="a.html">A</a></b></td>
    <td align="right">[<a href="b.mtml">B</a></td>
</tr></table></dt>
<dd>Test string</dd>
</dl>

As conforming XHTML? The problem is the table in the list than is used
to align the one part of the text left and the other right. Anyone know
of a structure that might replace the table to get the same effect and
conforming. Note that I don't like

<p><table width="100%">
<tr><td align="left"><b><a href="a.html">A</a></b></td>
    <td align="right">[<a href="b.mtml">B</a></td>
</tr></table></p>
<dl>
<dd>Test string</dd>
</dl>

as the spacing is really quite horrible if I try to keep reasonable
values for other purposes..

D.