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Re: HTML-tag not checked

From: Lloyd Wood <l.wood@eim.surrey.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:31:25 +0000 (GMT)
To: Liam Quinn <liam@htmlhelp.com>
cc: Willem Toering <willem.toering@knoop.nl>, www-validator <www-validator@w3.org>
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0111081830000.24843-100000@phaestos.ee.surrey.ac.uk> 
On Wed, 7 Nov 2001, Liam Quinn wrote:

> On Wed, 7 Nov 2001, Willem Toering wrote:
> 
> > I found out that your 'W3C's Validation Service' does not report when
> > the tags <HTML> and </HTML> are missing.
> 
> Those tags are optional except in XHTML.

er, don't think you can use them in xhtml. you have to write 
<html></html>

L.

if it was called xhtml, it would be easier to remember this.

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