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Re: [VE][79] Error Message Feedback

From: David Dorward <david@dorward.me.uk>
Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 17:11:20 +0000
To: Andreas Nielsen <asn@minimee.dk>
Cc: www-validator@w3.org
Message-ID: <20050220171120.GA16760@us-lot.org> 

On Sat, Feb 19, 2005 at 09:53:59PM +0100, Andreas Nielsen wrote:
>    I Don't understand that  errormessage, I am suposed to close my tags with
>    a > right?

No.

   <foo> - element open
   </foo> - element closed

Some elements are empty, in HTML they close themselves: <hr>,
<img>. In XHTML they are closed like so: <hr /><img />

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David Dorward                                      http://dorward.me.uk
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