- From: Arnaud Desitter <arnaud.desitter@ouce.ox.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 10:15:40 -0000
- To: "Bjoern Hoehrmann" <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Cc: <html-tidy@w3.org>
----- Original Message ----- From: "Bjoern Hoehrmann" <derhoermi@gmx.net> Newsgroups: gmane.comp.web.html-tidy.user Cc: <html-tidy@w3.org> Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 12:32 AM Subject: Re: Strange results with "HTML Validator ( based on Tidy )" > > * Salek Talangi wrote: >>1st error (Error_1.html): >>Tidy (or the extension) say the HTML is valid although >>the ordered list is closed by "</ol" (missing ">" ) > > In HTML this is allowed. Note, though, that Tidy silently corrects many > (real) errors like missing quote marks, etc., you cannot relaibly use it > to check whether a document conforms to the HTML/XHTML specifications. > See http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/appendix/notes.html#h-B.3.7 for why this > is allowed. The documents of the original bug report were declared as xthml 1.1. Does the rule above still apply ? Regards,
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