Re: The validator and XML standalone tags
From: Liam Quinn (liam@htmlhelp.com)
Date: Mon, Sep 06 1999
Message-ID: <37D43C0C.752CB628@htmlhelp.com>
Date: Mon, 06 Sep 1999 18:11:24 -0400
From: Liam Quinn <liam@htmlhelp.com>
To: Max Berger <mage@phobos.fachschaften.tu-muenchen.de>
CC: www-validator@w3.org
Subject: Re: The validator and XML standalone tags
Max Berger wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I wanted to convert my html 4.0 transitional document to valid xml.
> All I need to do so is add an extra <?xml ...?> tag. And the appropriate
> ending tags. e.g
>
> <hr>
> to
> <hr /> ( <hr/> won't work on netscape )
>
> so far, so good, and the document still validates. Except for my
> style-sheet:
> <head>
> <link ref="stylesheet" href="/~mage/personal.css" type="text/css" />
> </head>
>
> What is so different about the <link> tag that i can't use the / ???
You have "ref" as the attribute instead of "rel". You're also missing
the required title element in the head.
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Liam Quinn
A Real Validator for Windows, http://arealvalidator.com
Web Design Group, http://www.htmlhelp.com