Problems in validating '<noscript>'

From: John Fairweather <johnfairweather@ntlworld.com> Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 23:55:23 +0100 To: <www-validator@w3.org> Message-ID: <005801ca0731$abfa73f0$03ef5bd0$@com> · This archive was generated by hypermail 2.2.0+W3C-0.50 : Thursday, 1 October 2009 14:49:14 GMT

I'm trying to W3C validate the following code segment, but the validation says that '<noscript>' is an error - have you any idea why this occurs and is there a solution?

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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"

   "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">

<!-- Above validates the following for HTML 4.01 -->

<html>

<body>

.

.

<noscript>

<div class="statcounter">

<a title="web counter" href="http://www.statcounter.com/" target="_blank">

<img class="statcounter" src="http://c.statcounter.com/4069811/0/d06944bc/0/" alt="web counter">

</a>

</div>

</noscript>

</body>

</html>

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Regards,

John Fairweather