Re: Bug in the validator?

From: Martin Duerst (duerst@w3.org)
Date: Tue, Jul 10 2001

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    Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 17:15:19 +0900
    To: Karim A Nassar <Karim.Nassar@nau.edu>, www-validator@w3.org
    From: Martin Duerst <duerst@w3.org>
    Subject: Re: Bug in the validator?
    
    I only see one body tag. Your main problem is that you don't
    have a doctype, and so the parsing assumes X(HT)ML.
    
    Regards,   Martin.
    
    At 12:08 01/07/07 -0400, Karim A Nassar wrote:
    >If one looks at the parse tree for this page:
    >
    >http://www.cse.nau.edu/wdp/Title18/index.html
    >
    >there are two body tags, and the errors complain of no opening head
    >element. This doc was converted from word html. I know word html sucks,
    >but I don't think it should break the validator.
    >
    >I have verified that the <html><head></head><body></body></html> tags
    >exist in their proper place.
    >
    >Any suggestions?
    >
    >--Karim Nassar
    >
    >-- Karim Nassar