- From: Olivier Thereaux <ot@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 11:43:46 +0900
- To: Albert Chang <albert.chang@comcast.net>
- Cc: www-validator@w3.org
Hello Albert,
On Thu, Apr 28, 2005, Albert Chang wrote:
> Ok, I'm trying to make my scripts into xhtml 1.1 strict. I'm just
> teaching myself. I already have some knowledge of xhtml. I've been
> using 1.0 transitional for a while now.
>
> The validator said that for xhtml 1.1, the anchor tag no longer supports
> the name attribute.
Correct, see:
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/changes.html#a_changes
> However, when I went to
> http://www.domstyle.net/tuts/xhtml/xhtml3.html, the name attribute
> bypassed the validator. I would like to know why.
That document uses a bogus doctype. "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1 Strict//EN"
is not a correct W3C FPI, "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" is. In other
words, be aware that there is no such thing as XHTML 1.1 strict, only
XHTML 1.1.
Hope this helps.
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