Minimized tags error

From: Christian Smith (csmith@barebones.com)
Date: Tue, Mar 27 2001

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    Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 07:02:55 -0500
From: Christian Smith <csmith@barebones.com>
To: www-validator@w3.org
Message-ID: <20010327070257-r01010600-070c2978@192.168.0.1>
Subject: Minimized tags error

Why is the validator passing this as valid?

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
    <head>
        <title>Sidebar</title>
    </head>
    <body>
        <p>
        252 Riddle Pond Road<br />
        WTopsham VT 05086<br />
        </p>
    </body>
</html>

This looks like a bug to me. <br /> is an XHTML formatted tag and doesn't
belong in an HTML document.

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