Re: Underscore in META NAME value

From: Terje Bless (link@tss.no)
Date: Fri, Jun 22 2001

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    Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2001 02:14:10 +0200
    From: Terje Bless <link@tss.no>
    To: "Blackwood, David" <David.Blackwood@ccra-adrc.gc.ca>
    cc: "'www-validator@w3.org'" <www-validator@w3.org>
    Message-ID: <20010623023755-b01010705-ecd8014d-0910-010c@192.168.1.6>
    Subject: Re: Underscore in META NAME value
    
    On 22.06.01 at 11:30, Blackwood, David <David.Blackwood@ccra-adrc.gc.ca>
    wrote:
    
    >As of today it would appear that the NAME attribute value in a META tag
    >can no longer include an underscore.  For example the code '<META
    >NAME="Date_Created" CONTENT="2001-05-15">', which never produced an error
    >before, now produces 'Error: character "_" is not allowed in the value of
    >attribute "NAME"' when using the W3C HTML Validation Service.  Is this
    >correct?  It is not identified as one of the corrections in the CVS log.
    
    Can you provide an URL that validated earlier which no longer does? I can't
    offhand think of any change that would affect this, but there's been some
    rather sweeping changes lately so anythings possible I suppose.