Re: (x)html validator broken?

From: Terje Bless (link@pobox.com)
Date: Thu, Jul 26 2001

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    Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 10:47:58 +0200
    From: Terje Bless <link@pobox.com>
    To: Jonathon Isaac Swiderski <jonathon.swiderski@oberlin.edu>
    cc: www-validator@w3.org
    Message-ID: <20010726105321-r01010700-d2ad5694-0910-010c@192.168.1.6>
    Subject: Re: (x)html validator broken?
    
    On 24.07.01 at 23:19, Jonathon Isaac Swiderski
    <jonathon.swiderski@oberlin.edu> 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. . .
    
    As Karl said, you need to use lower-case element and attribute names in
    XHTML.
    
    
    >Additionally, when using the form to specify a version of HTML that I want
    >the file checked against, I receive an 'invalid doctype' error -- for a
    >doctype declaration that does not exist in the file either on my disk or
    >on the server, and which I can only assume has been inserted by the
    >Validator engine.
    
    Which DOCTYPE was that? Just cutīn`paste the URI for the results.