- From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 17:52:47 +0200
- To: "Robert E. Menteer II" <reetnem@bigfoot.com>
- Cc: www-validator@w3.org
* Robert E. Menteer II wrote:
>The following document does not validate because the <HTML> tag within
>the comment
>block is seen by the parser!
>
><!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN"
> "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd">
><HTML>
> <Head>
> <!-- This tag should not be seen! <HTML> -->
> </Head>
> <Body>
> This page does not validate!
> </Body>
></HTML>
No, the document doesn't validate because of the missing required title
element and required children of the body element and lack of an element
containing the PCDATA "This page does not validate!" since literal
PCDATA must not occur in the body in HTML4 strict.
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Received on Tuesday, 11 September 2001 11:53:57 UTC