RE: <meta> tag problem

• From: Jelks Cabaniss <jelks@jelks.nu>
• Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 11:33:48 -0500
• To: <html-tidy@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <000901c1c9e3$b6f6a0a0$6501a8c0@blackie>

Klaus Johannes Rusch wrote:

> > [Fatal Error] :52:8: The element type "meta" must be 
> > terminated by the matching end-tag "</meta>". error 
> > in extraction process!

> Use the -asxml option to convert HTML to XHTML.

Or -output-xhtml with the Sourceforge code base.
 
> Use the -asxml -n options to convert HTML to XHTML with 
> numeric entities instead of named entities, which would 
> need to be defined if you intend to use the XHTML file 
> with XML tools (browers understand the named entities 
> even when you use XHTML).

So do XML tools when you use the proper DOCTYPE declaration.  No need to
use -n for XHTML.


/Jelks

Received on Tuesday, 12 March 2002 11:34:46 UTC