- From: Karl Ove Hufthammer <huftis@bigfoot.com>
- Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 12:47:34 +0100
- To: www-validator@w3.org
Paul Wicks <Paul.Wicks@ilt.ac.uk> wrote in news:DBFDC973371FD311AF5700508B44022E82E084@ILTYOEX01: > If I use an xml style empty element in the head section of > a document, i.e. <link ... /> or <meta ... /> the validator > appears to interpret this as the end of the head section in > an HTML 4.01 transitional document. That's correct. You can't use / to close empty elements in HTML 4.01. > Is this a bug in the > validator, No. > or can I not have a document that is both > compatible with xhtml and html4.01? No, you can't. Your document must *either* be HTML 4.01 or XHTML. (But XHTML documents will still work in browsers that only supports HTML.) -- Karl Ove Hufthammer
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