Next message: Tim Bagot: "Re: Minimized P valid XHTML?"
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 12:01:15 -0700
From: Thanasis Kinias <tkinias@asu.edu>
To: "'Osmo Saarikumpu'" <sendosmo@hotmail.com>, shane@aptest.com, derhoermi@gmx.net
Cc: www-validator@w3.org
Message-id: <A021872EC2BDD411AB3600902746A05501604805@mainex4.asu.edu>
Subject: RE: Minimized P valid XHTML?
Osmo Saarikumpu wrote:
> Is the following document then perfectly valid, as the validator says, or
is
> it invalid, as it would seem to me (according to my understanding of the
the
> wording of the Reformulation of HTML 4 in XML 1.0):
[snip]
> <h1 />Hello world!
> <q />Hello again!
> <p />Have a nice day!
That's equivalent to:
| <h1></h1>Hello world!
| <q></q>Hello again!
| <p></p>Have a nice day!
Transitional will allow the latter, since "naked" text is allowed. Strict
will not, because text cannot be the direct child of <body>.
I'm not sure if it's legit to use the shorthand <br />-style closure on
non-empty elements, although I'm loathe to argue with the validator. I am
pretty sure, though, that if it is legit, it doesn't mean what you intend.
Thanasis Kinias
Information Dissemination Team, Information Technology
Arizona State University
Tempe, Ariz., U.S.A.
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