Re: <link> tag not validating properly?

From: Bjoern Hoehrmann (derhoermi@gmx.net)
Date: Tue, Jun 26 2001

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    From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
    To: "Kenneth Wright" <kenandcorey@hotmail.com>
    Cc: www-validator@w3.org
    Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 03:31:35 +0200
    Message-ID: <oagdjt0udeudgg1r96is9nkpta63llrkj2@4ax.com>
    Subject: Re: <link> tag not validating properly?
    
    * Kenneth Wright wrote:
    >I have a test page at <http://web.kenandcorey.com/t.htm> that does not pass 
    >validation for HTML 4.01. It does not like the trailing slash on my link 
    >tag.
    >
    >I want my page to be valid in both HTML 4.01 transitional, and XHTML 1.0 
    >transitional, but with the slash it fails HTML4, and without the slash it 
    >fails XHTML1.
    
    Since XHTML 1.0 and HTML 4.01 syntax differs, this is no wonder. You
    have to choose to be either HTML 4.01 _or_ XHTML 1.0 compliant.
    
    >Have I encountered a bug in the validator, or am I missing something?
    
    Try reading http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1
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