- From: Keith Bowes <keith_bowes@hotmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 02:48:27 -0400
- To: <www-validator@w3.org>
I was under the impression that valid XHTML isn't always valid HTML 4.01, but rather you can fool HTML UAs into thinking the slash is a boolean attribute (that's why, for compatibility, you can use white space before the slash). Since the HTML specs say that UAs should ignore attributes that they don't recognize, there's no harm in it. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Russell Healy" <rushealy@yahoo.com> To: <www-validator@w3.org> Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2000 8:07 AM Subject: HTML 4.01 validator error Hello I noticed that the HTML 4.01 validator incorrectly reports XML style empty elements as erroneous. For example: <HR /> is reported as an error but is actually correct. I have assumed that HTML 4.01 accepts XML style empty elements. If not, this raises the issue that XHTML 1.0 valid documents are not HTML 4.01 valid. Regards Russell Healy __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
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