Bug in validator with HTML 4 documents that are towards at XHTML compliance

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Hi!

I recently tried to make my documents, which complied with HTML 4.0
Transitional, as compatible with XHTML 1.0 as possible (whithout
switching the DTD yet).

So I edited the documents for XML wellformedness.  I converted "<HR>" to
"<hr />", which was OK for the validator. When changing a "<LINK [...]>"
element to "<link [...] />", the HTML-validator started reporting errors.

It considers the "</head>" element which follows to be in the wrong
context! I believe that my changes do keep the code compatible with
SGML/HTML.

When looking at the parse-tree, it seemed like the parser had worked
correctly, showing <LINK></LINK>. Can you tell me what went wrong? You
can find an example page at
<URL:http://www.yodanet.schwaebischhall.de/~marc/marc.html>.

Marc

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Received on Tuesday, 1 February 2000 16:45:33 UTC