Re: (x)html validator broken?

From: Karl Dubost (karl@w3.org)
Date: Thu, Jul 26 2001

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    Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 09:51:09 +0200
    To: Jonathon Isaac Swiderski <jonathon.swiderski@oberlin.edu>, www-validator@w3.org
    From: Karl Dubost <karl@w3.org>
    Subject: Re: (x)html validator broken?
    
    At 23:19 -0400 2001-07-24, Jonathon Isaac Swiderski wrote:
    >When trying to validate my site,
    >[http://members.evolt.org/jswiders/index.php?id=main], as Xhtml 1.0 strict, i
    >receive the message that the LINK, META, and H1 elements are not 
    >valid for that
    >version of HTML.  However, I've looked at the DTD file for XHTML/Strict, and
    >they're still there. . .
    
     From XHTML 1.0 Recommendation [1]
    
    .........................
    4.2 Element and attribute names must be in lower case
    
    XHTML documents must use lower case for all HTML element and 
    attribute names. This difference is necessary because XML is 
    case-sensitive e.g. <li> and <LI> are different tags.
    .........................
    
    [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#h-4.2
    
    
    
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    Karl Dubost / W3C - Conformance Manager
               http://www.w3.org/QA/
    
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