Re: Underscore in META NAME value

On 22.06.01 at 11:30, Blackwood, David <David.Blackwood@ccra-adrc.gc.ca>
wrote:

>As of today it would appear that the NAME attribute value in a META tag
>can no longer include an underscore.  For example the code '<META
>NAME="Date_Created" CONTENT="2001-05-15">', which never produced an error
>before, now produces 'Error: character "_" is not allowed in the value of
>attribute "NAME"' when using the W3C HTML Validation Service.  Is this
>correct?  It is not identified as one of the corrections in the CVS log.

Can you provide an URL that validated earlier which no longer does? I can't
offhand think of any change that would affect this, but there's been some
rather sweeping changes lately so anythings possible I suppose.