Re: The validator and XML standalone tags
From: Max Berger (mage@phobos.fachschaften.tu-muenchen.de)
Date: Mon, Sep 06 1999
Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1999 18:19:29 -0400 (EDT)
From: Max Berger <mage@phobos.fachschaften.tu-muenchen.de>
To: Liam Quinn <liam@htmlhelp.com>
cc: www-validator@w3.org
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.03.9909070018070.245-100000@phobos.fachschaften.tu-muenchen.de>
Subject: Re: The validator and XML standalone tags
On Mon, 6 Sep 1999, Liam Quinn wrote:
> 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.
Sorry, this was a spelling mistake. I do have rel, and i do have a title
element, i just left it out for my example
this thing I am curius about is the / at the end of the tag
Max Berger
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