RE: ANN: Information Validation (check.theinfo.org)

From: Sarah Wright (sarah@bluewave.com)
Date: Tue, Feb 27 2001

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    Message-Id: <4.1.20010227094615.00cf7d10@fritz.bluewave.co.uk>
    Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 09:46:55 +0000
    To: "wong yenchin" <galilee5@hotmail.com>, AJG003C@motorola.com
    From: Sarah Wright <sarah@bluewave.com>
    Cc: www-talk@w3.org, html-tidy@w3.org, www-validator@w3.org, www-html@w3.org
    Subject: RE: ANN: Information Validation (check.theinfo.org)
    
    
    
    you need to end the meta tags ...
    
    
    
    <meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 4.0" />
    <meta name="ProgId" content="FrontPage.Editor.Document" />
    <meta name="Keywords" content="Mrs Yip's Homepage, genesiswong_2000, Tang
    Dynasty, IKEA" />
    <meta name="Description" content="This is Mrs Yip Yen Chin personal webpages"
    />
    
    
    At 04:13 AM 2/24/01 +0000, wong yenchin wrote:
    >Yup, sure :
    >
    >http://validator.w3.org/
    >
    >Rgds
    >AW
    >
    >
    >>From: Gray Jonathan-AJG003C <AJG003C@motorola.com>
    >>To: "'wong yenchin'" <galilee5@hotmail.com>
    >>Subject: RE: ANN: Information Validation (check.theinfo.org)
    >>Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 11:00:10 +0100
    >>
    >>Can you send me the path to the Validator you used.
    >>
    >>Jonathan
    >>
    >>-----Original Message-----
    >>From: wong yenchin [mailto:galilee5@hotmail.com]
    >>Sent: Friday, February 23, 2001 9:52 AM
    >>To: www-talk@w3.org; xml-dev@xml.org; html-tidy@w3.org;
    >>www-validator@w3.org; www-html@w3.org
    >>Subject: Re: ANN: Information Validation (check.theinfo.org)
    >>
    >>
    >>I am trying to validate my homepage using the W3C HTML Validator. Below is
    >>my html source codes :
    >>
    >><head>
    >><title>New Page 1</title>
    >><meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 4.0">
    >><meta name="ProgId" content="FrontPage.Editor.Document">
    >><meta name="Keywords" content="Mrs Yip's Homepage, genesiswong_2000, Tang
    >>Dynasty, IKEA">
    >><meta name="Description" content="This is Mrs Yip Yen Chin personal
    >>webpages">
    >></head>
    >>
    >>The following is the error reported by W3C validator:
    >>
    >>Line 9, column 0:
    >>   <meta name="Description" content="This is Mrs Yip Yen Chin personal we 
    >>...
    >>   ^
    >>Error: start tag was here
    >>
    >>Line 10, column 6:
    >>   </head>
    >>         ^
    >>Error: end tag for "META" omitted, but its declaration does not permit this
    >>
    >>What's wrong?  META generalise syntax is <META NAME="Description"
    >>content="x"> and <META NAME="Keywords" content="x">.  META information
    >>reside within <HEAD></HEAD>.
    >>
    >>Thnk for your help.
    >>
    >>AW
    >>
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