Can src of an iframe be just HTML fragments?

From: Peter K. Sheerin (pete@petesguide.com)
Date: Fri, Jun 08 2001

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    From: "Peter K. Sheerin" <pete@petesguide.com>
    To: <www-validator@w3.org>
    Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 15:45:33 -0700
    Subject: Can src of an iframe be just HTML fragments?
    
    I'm trying to answer a question the validator can't tell me. I've got some <iframe> tags in a document that validates. The validator never sees the source referenced in these tags, and thus doesn't try to validate them.
    
    Shouldn't it, though? Because:
    
    The browsers do see this, because they have to render it. So do I need to make sure that any file referenced by an <iframe> is complete HTML that validates, with <html>, <head>, and <body>?