Dear HTML validator group, I have been attempting to rewrite my default template for HTML 4.0 in such a way that it was valid XHTML. However I was unable to validate my efforts (http://achilles.bu.edu/cas/template.html) since the validator will not accept the lines: <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" /> <meta name="author" content="Charles Alexander Stewart" /> reporting (for the second of these lines) * Line 18, column 57: <meta name="author" content="Charles Alexander Stewart" /> ^ Error: character data is not allowed here I could find no reference to this in the HTML 4.0 specification, and the reported error seems paradoxical given that the validator is happy with the lines: <meta name="description" content="" /> <meta name="keywords" content="Charles Alexander Stewart" /> in the same script. I hope this is not a waste of your time, Dr. Charles Stewart Dept. Computer Science, Boston University PS. The script I sent to the validator begins with: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd"> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?> <html lang="en"> I called the validtor from a version of lynx with a forged USER_AGENT header, using the URL http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://achilles.bu.edu/cas/template.html I shall not change the contents of http://achilles.bu.edu/cas/template.html until I receive a reply.Received on Wednesday, 3 May 2000 00:45:13 GMT
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