- From: Jukka K. Korpela <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi>
- Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 21:59:30 +0300 (EEST)
- To: www-validator@w3.org
On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, Matt Hackett wrote: > I recently attempted to validate a transitional xhtml 1.0 document. Did you specify an XHTML DTD? > <map id ="images" name="images"> > <area shape="rect" coords="0, 152, 330, 270" href="" target="_blank" alt="" /> > </map> > > .... which will not validate. The Validator says "character data is not allowed here." > It will validate just fine if I remove the closing "/" from the area element, but that would > leave it open. It sounds very much like an attempt to validate an XHTML document against an HTML 4.01 DTD. So please check the DOCTYPE declaration, and post the URL if problems remain. -- Jukka "Yucca" Korpela, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
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