Re: HTML and XHTML mismatches

Hi,

Thanks for the suggestion, I added this information in the Amaya FAQ.

> I am writing this so it gets in the archives, as it is a question I get asked
> from time to time.
> 
> If you take a file in XHTML, and edit it with an HTML editor, you may create
> something that is not valid XHTML. Amaya, behaving as required by the XML
> specification, warns that there is a problem, says something about what and
> where it is, and stops processing.
> 
> If you had loaded this as an HTML file, there would be no problem. You could
> save it back as an XHTML file perfectly well.
> 
> For example, looking at the source, removing the namespace attribute from the
> html element and synchronising seems to do the trick.
> 
> Do the team have any more explanation of how this happens, and what other
> factors (MIME type? others?) come into play?
> 
> Charles McCN
> 
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-- 
     Irene.

Received on Tuesday, 20 March 2001 10:51:07 UTC