- From: Klaus Johannes Rusch <KlausRusch@atmedia.net>
- Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2003 20:26:39 CET
- To: html-tidy@w3.org, Thomas.Adams@bbdo-interone.de
- Cc: tidy-develop@lists.sourceforge.net
At 9:22 AM +0100 12/11/03, Thomas Adams wrote: >Dear Terry, i recently have used tidy (Windows version from 12th July >2003) to validatemy HTML. Given is the DOCTYPE XHTML 1.0 Transitional in >my code, tidy validatesits fine (it means succesfully). Dear Thomas, when you run tidy against the file where you have changed the doctype, do you get any informational or warning messages? Did you submit the output of running tidy again to the W3C validator, or the input document in which you had manually changed the doctype? HTML 4.01 Transitional and XHTML 1.0 Transitional are very similar, except that HTML is parsed according to SGML parsing rules whereas XHTML is parsed according to XML parsing rules. Elements with empty context models must not have end tags in HTML, but have end tags in XML, so HTML 4.01: <br> XHTML 1.0: <br></br> or, for better compatibility with HTML browsers, <br /> >My question is, is my code still valid HTML 4.01 or do I >have to do some rework on my html-code to validate at W3C as well. Unless you need to use HTML 4.01 Transitional, I would recommend that you go with XHTML 1.0 Transitional instead, which is recognized by all current browsers, and when following the recommendations for backwards compatibility outlined in the specification, also by older browsers. -- Klaus Johannes Rusch KlausRusch@atmedia.net http://www.atmedia.net/KlausRusch/
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