Re: http://validator.w3.org/ bug with <style id>

On Mon, 16 Sep 2002, Eric Gillespie wrote:

> Running <http://pretzelnet.org/~epg/tmp/test.html> through the
> on-line validator produces the following error:
>
>     *  Line 11, column 14:
>
>       <style id="internal-style" type="text/css" media="screen,
>       print, t ...
>                 ^
>
>       Error: there is no attribute "id" for this element (in
>       this HTML version)
>
> The document where i first noticed this began life as a lazy HTML
> document, not compliant to any standard.  I followed the
> recommendations in <http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#guidelines>
> "HTML Compatability Guidelines" to make it a backwards-compatible
> document, that validates to the XHTML 1.0 Strict DTD.  Later i
> noticed section C.14, which recommends using the xml-stylesheet
> PI.
>
> Unfortunately, despite that document's recommendations, the
> validator does not think the <style> element has an id attribute.
> Is this a bug in the validator or the DTD?

There is no "id" attribute for the "style" element in HTML or XHTML.

-- 
Liam Quinn