Re: Doctype

It might be that you're mixing components from different HTML versions,
so tidy can't determine which you're probably trying to conform to. 
Check out:

http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwoodstowneclipse.tripod.com%2FEclipse%2Fid1.html&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline

is idl.html a directory, as your trailing slash indicates?

Allan


"Reilly, Walt" wrote:
> 
> I am a relative novice to web page authoring.  I use HTML Tidy to validate
> my code but I always get a message that says the document appears to be HTML
> proprietary.  What does that mean?  An example of the page I get that
> message on can be found at
> http://woodstowneclipse.tripod.com/Eclipse/id1.html/.